[Biopython] History, Efetch, and returned records limits

Mariam Reyad Rizkallah mrrizkalla at gmail.com
Sat Apr 14 13:56:22 UTC 2012


Definitely!

I am stuck with Rhizaria (
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucest/?term=txid543769[Organism:exp])! Hope to
move on through the tree of life :)

./get_est_by_txid.py "543769" "Rhizaria"

Thank you so much.

On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> 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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