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# Citation

If you use `gget` in a publication, please cite:  
Luebbert, L., & Pachter, L. (2023). Efficient querying of genomic reference databases with gget. Bioinformatics. [https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac836](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac836)

- If using `gget alphafold`, please also cite:  
  - Jumper, J., Evans, R., Pritzel, A. et al. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold. Nature 596, 583–589 (2021). [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2)

  And, if applicable:  
  - Evans, R. et al. Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer. bioRxiv 2021.10.04.463034; [https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034](https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.04.463034)

- If using `gget archs4`, please also cite:  
  - Lachmann A, Torre D, Keenan AB, Jagodnik KM, Lee HJ, Wang L, Silverstein MC, Ma’ayan A. Massive mining of publicly available RNA-seq data from human and mouse. Nature Communications 9. Article number: 1366 (2018), doi:10.1038/s41467-018-03751-6

  - Bray NL, Pimentel H, Melsted P and Pachter L, Near optimal probabilistic RNA-seq quantification, Nature Biotechnology 34, p 525--527 (2016). [https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3519](https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3519)

- If using `gget bgee`, please also cite:
  - Frederic B Bastian, Julien Roux, Anne Niknejad, Aurélie Comte, Sara S Fonseca Costa, Tarcisio Mendes de Farias, Sébastien Moretti, Gilles Parmentier, Valentine Rech de Laval, Marta Rosikiewicz, Julien Wollbrett, Amina Echchiki, Angélique Escoriza, Walid H Gharib, Mar Gonzales-Porta, Yohan Jarosz, Balazs Laurenczy, Philippe Moret, Emilie Person, Patrick Roelli, Komal Sanjeev, Mathieu Seppey, Marc Robinson-Rechavi (2021). The Bgee suite: integrated curated expression atlas and comparative transcriptomics in animals. Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 49, Issue D1, 8 January 2021, Pages D831–D847, [https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa793](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkaa793)

- If using `gget blast`, please also cite:  
  - Altschul SF, Gish W, Miller W, Myers EW, Lipman DJ. Basic local alignment search tool. J Mol Biol. 1990 Oct 5;215(3):403-10. doi: 10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2. PMID: 2231712.

- If using `gget blat`, please also cite:  
  - Kent WJ. BLAT--the BLAST-like alignment tool. Genome Res. 2002 Apr;12(4):656-64. doi: 10.1101/gr.229202. PMID: 11932250; PMCID: PMC187518.

- If using `gget cbio`, please also cite:
  - Cerami E, Gao J, Dogrusoz U, Gross BE, Sumer SO, Aksoy BA, Jacobsen A, Byrne CJ, Heuer ML, Larsson E, Antipin Y, Reva B, Goldberg AP, Sander C, Schultz N. The cBio cancer genomics portal: an open platform for exploring multidimensional cancer genomics data. Cancer Discov. 2012 May;2(5):401-4. doi: [10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0095](https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-12-0095). Erratum in: Cancer Discov. 2012 Oct;2(10):960. PMID: 22588877; PMCID: PMC3956037.

  - Gao J, Aksoy BA, Dogrusoz U, Dresdner G, Gross B, Sumer SO, Sun Y, Jacobsen A, Sinha R, Larsson E, Cerami E, Sander C, Schultz N. Integrative analysis of complex cancer genomics and clinical profiles using the cBioPortal. Sci Signal. 2013 Apr 2;6(269):pl1. doi: [10.1126/scisignal.2004088](https://doi.org/10.1126/scisignal.2004088). PMID: 23550210; PMCID: PMC4160307.

  - de Bruijn I, Kundra R, Mastrogiacomo B, Tran TN, Sikina L, Mazor T, Li X, Ochoa A, Zhao G, Lai B, Abeshouse A, Baiceanu D, Ciftci E, Dogrusoz U, Dufilie A, Erkoc Z, Garcia Lara E, Fu Z, Gross B, Haynes C, Heath A, Higgins D, Jagannathan P, Kalletla K, Kumari P, Lindsay J, Lisman A, Leenknegt B, Lukasse P, Madela D, Madupuri R, van Nierop P, Plantalech O, Quach J, Resnick AC, Rodenburg SYA, Satravada BA, Schaeffer F, Sheridan R, Singh J, Sirohi R, Sumer SO, van Hagen S, Wang A, Wilson M, Zhang H, Zhu K, Rusk N, Brown S, Lavery JA, Panageas KS, Rudolph JE, LeNoue-Newton ML, Warner JL, Guo X, Hunter-Zinck H, Yu TV, Pilai S, Nichols C, Gardos SM, Philip J; AACR Project GENIE BPC Core Team, AACR Project GENIE Consortium; Kehl KL, Riely GJ, Schrag D, Lee J, Fiandalo MV, Sweeney SM, Pugh TJ, Sander C, Cerami E, Gao J, Schultz N. Analysis and Visualization of Longitudinal Genomic and Clinical Data from the AACR Project GENIE Biopharma Collaborative in cBioPortal. Cancer Res. 2023 Dec 1;83(23):3861-3867. doi: [10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-0816](https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-23-0816). PMID: 37668528; PMCID: PMC10690089.

  - Please also cite the source of the data if you are using a publicly available dataset.

- If using `gget cellxgene`, please also cite:  
  - Chanzuckerberg Initiative. (n.d.). CZ CELLxGENE Discover. Retrieved [insert date here], from [https://cellxgene.cziscience.com/](https://cellxgene.cziscience.com/)

- If using `gget cosmic`, please also cite:  
  - Tate JG, Bamford S, Jubb HC, Sondka Z, Beare DM, Bindal N, Boutselakis H, Cole CG, Creatore C, Dawson E, Fish P, Harsha B, Hathaway C, Jupe SC, Kok CY, Noble K, Ponting L, Ramshaw CC, Rye CE, Speedy HE, Stefancsik R, Thompson SL, Wang S, Ward S, Campbell PJ, Forbes SA. COSMIC: the Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jan 8;47(D1):D941-D947. doi: [10.1093/nar/gky1015](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky1015). PMID: 30371878; PMCID: PMC6323903.

- If using `gget diamond`, please also cite:  
  - Buchfink, B., Xie, C. & Huson, D. Fast and sensitive protein alignment using DIAMOND. Nat Methods 12, 59–60 (2015). [https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3176](https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3176)

- If using `gget elm`, please also cite:
  - Laura Luebbert, Chi Hoang, Manjeet Kumar, Lior Pachter, Fast and scalable querying of eukaryotic linear motifs with gget elm, Bioinformatics, 2024, btae095, [https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae095](https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae095)

  - Manjeet Kumar, Sushama Michael, Jesús Alvarado-Valverde, Bálint Mészáros, Hugo Sámano‐Sánchez, András Zeke, Laszlo Dobson, Tamas Lazar, Mihkel Örd, Anurag Nagpal, Nazanin Farahi, Melanie Käser, Ramya Kraleti, Norman E Davey, Rita Pancsa, Lucía B Chemes, Toby J Gibson, The Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource: 2022 release, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 50, Issue D1, 7 January 2022, Pages D497–D508, [https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab975](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab975)

- If using `gget enrichr`, please also cite:  
  - Chen EY, Tan CM, Kou Y, Duan Q, Wang Z, Meirelles GV, Clark NR, Ma'ayan A. Enrichr: interactive and collaborative HTML5 gene list enrichment analysis tool. BMC Bioinformatics. 2013; 128(14). [https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-128 ](https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-14-128)

  - Kuleshov MV, Jones MR, Rouillard AD, Fernandez NF, Duan Q, Wang Z, Koplev S, Jenkins SL, Jagodnik KM, Lachmann A, McDermott MG, Monteiro CD, Gundersen GW, Ma'ayan A. Enrichr: a comprehensive gene set enrichment analysis web server 2016 update. Nucleic Acids Research. 2016; gkw377. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkw377](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw377)

  - Xie Z, Bailey A, Kuleshov MV, Clarke DJB., Evangelista JE, Jenkins SL, Lachmann A, Wojciechowicz ML, Kropiwnicki E, Jagodnik KM, Jeon M, & Ma’ayan A. Gene set knowledge discovery with Enrichr. Current Protocols, 1, e90. 2021. doi: [10.1002/cpz1.90](https://doi.org/10.1002/cpz1.90).

  If working with non-human/mouse datasets, please also cite:
  - Kuleshov MV, Diaz JEL, Flamholz ZN, Keenan AB, Lachmann A, Wojciechowicz ML, Cagan RL, Ma'ayan A. modEnrichr: a suite of gene set enrichment analysis tools for model organisms. Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 Jul 2;47(W1):W183-W190. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkz347](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkz347). PMID: 31069376; PMCID: PMC6602483.

- If using `gget info`, please also cite:
  - Martin FJ, Amode MR, Aneja A, Austine-Orimoloye O, Azov AG, Barnes I, Becker A, Bennett R, Berry A, Bhai J, Bhurji SK, Bignell A, Boddu S, Branco Lins PR, Brooks L, Ramaraju SB, Charkhchi M, Cockburn A, Da Rin Fiorretto L, Davidson C, Dodiya K, Donaldson S, El Houdaigui B, El Naboulsi T, Fatima R, Giron CG, Genez T, Ghattaoraya GS, Martinez JG, Guijarro C, Hardy M, Hollis Z, Hourlier T, Hunt T, Kay M, Kaykala V, Le T, Lemos D, Marques-Coelho D, Marugán JC, Merino GA, Mirabueno LP, Mushtaq A, Hossain SN, Ogeh DN, Sakthivel MP, Parker A, Perry M, Piližota I, Prosovetskaia I, Pérez-Silva JG, Salam AIA, Saraiva-Agostinho N, Schuilenburg H, Sheppard D, Sinha S, Sipos B, Stark W, Steed E, Sukumaran R, Sumathipala D, Suner MM, Surapaneni L, Sutinen K, Szpak M, Tricomi FF, Urbina-Gómez D, Veidenberg A, Walsh TA, Walts B, Wass E, Willhoft N, Allen J, Alvarez-Jarreta J, Chakiachvili M, Flint B, Giorgetti S, Haggerty L, Ilsley GR, Loveland JE, Moore B, Mudge JM, Tate J, Thybert D, Trevanion SJ, Winterbottom A, Frankish A, Hunt SE, Ruffier M, Cunningham F, Dyer S, Finn RD, Howe KL, Harrison PW, Yates AD, Flicek P. Ensembl 2023. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D933-D941. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkac958](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac958). PMID: 36318249; PMCID: PMC9825606.

  - Sayers EW, Beck J, Bolton EE, Brister JR, Chan J, Comeau DC, Connor R, DiCuccio M, Farrell CM, Feldgarden M, Fine AM, Funk K, Hatcher E, Hoeppner M, Kane M, Kannan S, Katz KS, Kelly C, Klimke W, Kim S, Kimchi A, Landrum M, Lathrop S, Lu Z, Malheiro A, Marchler-Bauer A, Murphy TD, Phan L, Prasad AB, Pujar S, Sawyer A, Schmieder E, Schneider VA, Schoch CL, Sharma S, Thibaud-Nissen F, Trawick BW, Venkatapathi T, Wang J, Pruitt KD, Sherry ST. Database resources of the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Nucleic Acids Res. 2024 Jan 5;52(D1):D33-D43. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkad1044](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad1044). PMID: 37994677; PMCID: PMC10767890.

  - The UniProt Consortium , UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 51, Issue D1, 6 January 2023, Pages D523–D531, [https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1052](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1052)

- If using `gget muscle`, please also cite:  
  - Edgar RC (2021), MUSCLE v5 enables improved estimates of phylogenetic tree confidence by ensemble bootstrapping, bioRxiv 2021.06.20.449169. [https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.20.449169](https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.20.449169)

- If using `gget opentargets`, please also cite:
  - Ochoa D, Hercules A, Carmona M, Suveges D, Baker J, Malangone C, Lopez I, Miranda A, Cruz-Castillo C, Fumis L, Bernal-Llinares M, Tsukanov K, Cornu H, Tsirigos K, Razuvayevskaya O, Buniello A, Schwartzentruber J, Karim M, Ariano B, Martinez Osorio RE, Ferrer J, Ge X, Machlitt-Northen S, Gonzalez-Uriarte A, Saha S, Tirunagari S, Mehta C, Roldán-Romero JM, Horswell S, Young S, Ghoussaini M, Hulcoop DG, Dunham I, McDonagh EM. The next-generation Open Targets Platform: reimagined, redesigned, rebuilt. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D1353-D1359. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkac1046](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1046). PMID: 36399499; PMCID: PMC9825572.

- If using `gget pdb`, please also cite:
  - Berman HM, Westbrook J, Feng Z, Gilliland G, Bhat TN, Weissig H, Shindyalov IN, Bourne PE. The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Res. 2000 Jan 1;28(1):235-42. doi: [10.1093/nar/28.1.235](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/28.1.235). PMID: 10592235; PMCID: PMC102472.

- If using `gget ref` or `gget search`, please also cite:
  - Martin FJ, Amode MR, Aneja A, Austine-Orimoloye O, Azov AG, Barnes I, Becker A, Bennett R, Berry A, Bhai J, Bhurji SK, Bignell A, Boddu S, Branco Lins PR, Brooks L, Ramaraju SB, Charkhchi M, Cockburn A, Da Rin Fiorretto L, Davidson C, Dodiya K, Donaldson S, El Houdaigui B, El Naboulsi T, Fatima R, Giron CG, Genez T, Ghattaoraya GS, Martinez JG, Guijarro C, Hardy M, Hollis Z, Hourlier T, Hunt T, Kay M, Kaykala V, Le T, Lemos D, Marques-Coelho D, Marugán JC, Merino GA, Mirabueno LP, Mushtaq A, Hossain SN, Ogeh DN, Sakthivel MP, Parker A, Perry M, Piližota I, Prosovetskaia I, Pérez-Silva JG, Salam AIA, Saraiva-Agostinho N, Schuilenburg H, Sheppard D, Sinha S, Sipos B, Stark W, Steed E, Sukumaran R, Sumathipala D, Suner MM, Surapaneni L, Sutinen K, Szpak M, Tricomi FF, Urbina-Gómez D, Veidenberg A, Walsh TA, Walts B, Wass E, Willhoft N, Allen J, Alvarez-Jarreta J, Chakiachvili M, Flint B, Giorgetti S, Haggerty L, Ilsley GR, Loveland JE, Moore B, Mudge JM, Tate J, Thybert D, Trevanion SJ, Winterbottom A, Frankish A, Hunt SE, Ruffier M, Cunningham F, Dyer S, Finn RD, Howe KL, Harrison PW, Yates AD, Flicek P. Ensembl 2023. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D933-D941. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkac958](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac958). PMID: 36318249; PMCID: PMC9825606.

- If using `gget seq`, please also cite:
  - Martin FJ, Amode MR, Aneja A, Austine-Orimoloye O, Azov AG, Barnes I, Becker A, Bennett R, Berry A, Bhai J, Bhurji SK, Bignell A, Boddu S, Branco Lins PR, Brooks L, Ramaraju SB, Charkhchi M, Cockburn A, Da Rin Fiorretto L, Davidson C, Dodiya K, Donaldson S, El Houdaigui B, El Naboulsi T, Fatima R, Giron CG, Genez T, Ghattaoraya GS, Martinez JG, Guijarro C, Hardy M, Hollis Z, Hourlier T, Hunt T, Kay M, Kaykala V, Le T, Lemos D, Marques-Coelho D, Marugán JC, Merino GA, Mirabueno LP, Mushtaq A, Hossain SN, Ogeh DN, Sakthivel MP, Parker A, Perry M, Piližota I, Prosovetskaia I, Pérez-Silva JG, Salam AIA, Saraiva-Agostinho N, Schuilenburg H, Sheppard D, Sinha S, Sipos B, Stark W, Steed E, Sukumaran R, Sumathipala D, Suner MM, Surapaneni L, Sutinen K, Szpak M, Tricomi FF, Urbina-Gómez D, Veidenberg A, Walsh TA, Walts B, Wass E, Willhoft N, Allen J, Alvarez-Jarreta J, Chakiachvili M, Flint B, Giorgetti S, Haggerty L, Ilsley GR, Loveland JE, Moore B, Mudge JM, Tate J, Thybert D, Trevanion SJ, Winterbottom A, Frankish A, Hunt SE, Ruffier M, Cunningham F, Dyer S, Finn RD, Howe KL, Harrison PW, Yates AD, Flicek P. Ensembl 2023. Nucleic Acids Res. 2023 Jan 6;51(D1):D933-D941. doi: [10.1093/nar/gkac958](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac958). PMID: 36318249; PMCID: PMC9825606.

  - The UniProt Consortium , UniProt: the Universal Protein Knowledgebase in 2023, Nucleic Acids Research, Volume 51, Issue D1, 6 January 2023, Pages D523–D531, [https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1052](https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkac1052)

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# Disclaimer  
`gget` is only as accurate as the databases/servers/APIs it queries from. The accuracy or reliability of the data is not guaranteed or warranted in any way and the providers disclaim liability of any kind whatsoever, including, without limitation, liability for quality, performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose arising out of the use, or inability to use the data.
