PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Ángel Gálvez-Merchán AU - Kyung Hoi (Joseph) Min AU - Lior Pachter AU - A. Sina Booeshaghi TI - Metadata retrieval from sequence databases with <em>ffq</em> AID - 10.1101/2022.05.18.492548 DP - 2022 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2022.05.18.492548 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/26/2022.05.18.492548.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/26/2022.05.18.492548.full AB - We present a command-line tool, called ffq, for querying user-generated data and metadata from sequence databases. The code can be found here: https://github.com/pachterlab/ffq.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.