Reference Builder

Build and maintain reference sets of pathogen genome sequences.

Installation

pip install ref-builder

Environmental Variables

Ref Builder uses the NCBI API to fetch genome data.

Unauthenticated requests are limited to 3 per second. Setting NCBI account credentials in your environmental variables can increase the allowed rate to 10 requests per second.

Name	Description
NCBI_EMAIL	The e-mail address used for your NCBI account
NCBI_API_KEY	The API key associated with your NCBI account.