NAME

       gff-sort - sort a General Feature Format version 3 file

SYNOPSIS

       gff-sort

DESCRIPTION

       gff-sort  reads  a  General  Feature Format version 3 (GFF3) file from standard input and prints a sorted
       equivalent to standard output.  It sorts according to the following criteria:
       • accession (highest priority), case insensitively
       • feature identifier, case insensitively and hierarchically
       • strand (positive first)
       • start position
       • length (longest first)
       • feature key (lowest priority):
         • gene or pseudogene (first)
         • mRNA, primary_transcript, or a recombination site such as C_region
         • CDS
         • exon or intron
         • anything else (last)

SEE ALSO

       gff2xml(1), sort-table(1), transmute(1), xtract(1).

NCBI                                               2025-05-26                                        GFF-SORT(1)