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EDirect

Entrez Direct (EDirect) provides access to the NCBI's suite ofinterconnected databases from a Unix terminal window. Search terms are enteredas command-line arguments. Individual operations are connected with Unix pipesto construct multi-step queries. Selected records can then be retrieved in avariety of formats.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/

Available modules

The overview below shows which EDirect installations are available per target architecture in the HPCC module system, ordered based on software version (new to old).

To start using EDirect, load one of these modules using a module load command like:

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module load EDirect/20.5.20231006-GCCcore-12.3.0

(This data was automatically generated on Thu, 17 Apr 2025 at 12:00:12 EDT)

neoverse_v1 generic zen2 zen3 zen4 haswell skylake_avx512
Grace Nodes everywhere (except Grace nodes) amd20 amd22 amd24 intel16 intel18,amd20-v100,amd21,intel21
EDirect/20.5.20231006-GCCcore-12.3.0 - x - - - - -