[BioPython] E-utils on NCBI site

[Iddo Friedberg]

Bio.EUtils is the module you are looking for. Look in the tests 
subdirectory for some examples.

Cheers,

Iddo


Srinivas Iyyer wrote:

>Dear group, 
> there are 2 questions that are important to my
>research.  I hope group members who have tried would
>be willing to help me. 
>
>1. How do I use E-utils using python, bio-python
>modules. Are there any examples?
>
>2. here is the specific that I want to do. I am
>interested in downloading all the human affymetrix
>data submitted to GEO site. 
>
>for example:GSE2152_RAW_tar is the raw CEL file
>package submitted to GEO by the authors.  It is in the
>directory:
>ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/geo/data/geo/raw_data/series/GSE2152/GSE2152_RAW.tar
>
>However, checking manually for every dataset that is
>submitted to ncbi is pains taking procedure. So I want
>to be able to write a script that would check for
>every dataset submitted to GEO. After that I want to
>filter human tar files. 
>
>Has any one did this before.  could you please help
>me. 
>
>Thanks
>Srini
>
>
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