[Bioperl-l] Downloading UID Lists

[David Schibeci]

Hi,

I'm trying to write a perl program which downloads a list of UIDs for a
given legume (Medicago Truncatula) and then check against a list of
previously downloaded sequences (via Network Entrez) and download any new
sequences.

I've gotten most of it to work (downloading sequences and checking against
previously downloaded sequences) but I can't work out how to get a list of
UIDs via the web (I can via Network Entrez, but I want to automate the
entire process). I've tried using the search URL
(eg.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=Nucleotide&term=Medicago%20%Truncatula[ORGN])
but it limits me to twenty UIDs. I want to get all 80,000+.

Can anyone help?

Cheers,
David

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David Schibeci
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