Bioperl: NCBI 'Query' email server

[Aaron J Mackey]

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Ewan Birney wrote:

> On Tue, 18 May 1999, Simon Twigger wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Im in the process of planning a perl-based application which will need
> > to grab nucleotide sequences from NCBI based on accession numbers and
> > then take those sequences and BLAST them against one of the databases at
> > NCBI, parse the results and then deal with them further. In my initial
> 
> Actually in the current bioperl (0.05), there is all the functionality you
> need (I think) already in there.
> 
> 	Bio::DB::GenBank - provides http access to genbank from ncbi
> 	Bio::Tools::Blast - Blast sequences against a DB remotely.
> 

Not only that, but the Bio::DB::GenBank provides both single and batch
modes, returning your sequences in a datastream, and does so without the
use of LWP (although actually it just mimics LWP behavior directly, so it
should be as robust).

-Aaron

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