NAME

       einfo - look up general NCBI Entrez database information

SYNOPSIS

       einfo [-help] [-dbs] [-db name] [-fields] [-links]

DESCRIPTION

       einfo  looks  up  general  information  about  either an individual NCBI Entrez database with which other
       Entrez Direct commands can work or the set of available databases as a whole.

       einfo is also the name of an tool for accessing contents of local EPUB files.  To resolve this ambiguity,
       Debian systems with both EPUB  utilities  and  Entrez  Direct  installed  arrange  for  the  EPUB-related
       executable  to  have  the name einfo.epub(1) and for einfo to be a wrapper script that examines its usage
       and proceeds to run whichever of einfo.epub(1) or einfo.ncbi looks like a better fit.

OPTIONS

   Database Selection
       -dbs   Print a plain-text list of all available Entrez databases.

       -db name
              Print information on the specified Entrez database (or all), as an XML eInfoResult document.

   Data Summaries
       -fields
              Print just an XML-structured summary of fields in the specified database.

       -links Print just an XML-structured summary of links to and from the specified database.

   Miscellaneous
       -help  Print usage information, complete with samples of -fields and -links XML output.

SEE ALSO

       einfo.epub(1), elink(1), nquire(1).

NCBI                                               2023-01-24                                           EINFO(1)