GBSON

File format definition used by the GeSeq annotation software to represent GenBank data as JSON.

Example JSON output

An example output can be found here: GBSON-Example.json.

Usage

To use GBSON in your application you can use any standard JSON parser. If you are programming in JavaScript, just do

const data = JSON.parse(gbson);

In TypeScript you should add the type declaration from this repository to get full IDE support

import { GBSON } from "./GBSON";

const data:GBSON = JSON.parse(gbson);

And access the data like this

const gene = data.features[0].gene;

Range definitions

GenBank

complement(join(125294..125832,126877..127429))

GBSON

{ "complement" : { "joined" : [ [ 125294, 125832 ], [ 126877, 127429 ] ] } }

Nested Features

An advantage of using JSON over GenBank or GFF is its intrinsic capability to express nested structures: