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How to dump genes from GenBank in GFF3 format?

If I look at this record in GenBank I see about 6k genes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/CM000760?report=gbwithparts

I'd really like to be able to dump those genes in GFF3 format, but I'm guessing I can't do that in a single step, so...

  1. How to dump all genes from a GenBank record in 'whatever' format?
  2. How to convert 'whatever' format to GFF3?
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Ha, turns out you can just grab the GFF3 from the NCBI's FTP site!

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/all/GCA/000/003/195/GCA_000003195.3_Sorghum_bicolor_NCBIv3/

See:

Or "Access the data" on the right here:

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