GFF/GTF utility providing format conversions, filtering, FASTA sequence extraction and more.
More details and usage examples can be found in the paper DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.23297.1 which can be also used to cite this software.
The official webpage with download packages for this utility can be found online here: http://ccb.jhu.edu/software/stringtie/gff.shtml#gffread
Use gffread -h to see the command line usage options.
Building this program from source requires the GCLib source code
library. The make command should automatically fetch the latest gclib version from the repository if no ../gclib directory is found.
cd /some/build/dir
git clone https://github.com/gpertea/gffread
cd gffread
make release
This should create the gffread binary in the current directory.
