[Biopython] using efetch to return mesh terms

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Fri Nov 30 23:10:28 UTC 2012


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Alex Garnett <axfelix at gmail.com> wrote:
> In any case, I'm still looking to get this to return mesh
> terms... any advice?

I see Andrew Dalke (who has made many contributions to Biopython
in the past) has in the last hour given you some useful advice here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13652230/cant-get-entrez-to-return-mesh-terms-using-biopython

He pointed out some (older) records do have MESH terms,

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12654674&retmode=xml

while the newer record you tried doesn't (yet) have any MESH terms:

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=23165874&retmode=xml

Peter



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