gff-sort

gff-sort

gff-sort reads a General Feature Format version 3 (GFF3) file from standard input and prints a sorted equivalent to standard output. It sorts according to the following criteria:

• accession (highest priority), case insensitively
• feature identifier, case insensitively and hierarchically
• strand (positive first)
• start position
• length (longest first)
• feature key (lowest priority):

gff2xml(1), sort-table(1), transmute(1), xtract(1).