[Biopython] History, Efetch, and returned records limits

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Sat Apr 14 13:52:43 UTC 2012


On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Mariam Reyad Rizkallah
<mrrizkalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> I am concerned with EST sequences, I will check if they are in the
> gi_taxid_nucl mappers.
>
> Please find my script, with 3 approaches and their results.
>
>> #!/usr/bin/python
>> import sys
>> from Bio import Entrez
>> Entrez.email = "mariam.rizkallah at gmail.com"
>> txid = int(sys.argv[1])
>> ...

Can you give an example taxid where this breaks? I guess any
with just over 10,000 results would be fine but it would be simpler
to use the same as you for comparing results.

Peter



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