[Bioperl-l] retrieving top_SeqFeatures for RefSeq proteins fails

[Torsten Seemann]

Eleni,

> my $factory = Bio::DB::GenBank->new(-no_redirect => 1);
> my $seq = $factory->get_Seq_by_acc(' NM_001008292');

You have a space character before the NM_ ?
Try removing it.

> returns:
> MSG: [gb| NM_001008292] is not a normal sequence entry but a RefSeq entry.
> Redirecting the request.

There's the space, right in the error message.

Is that the problem?

Brian's counter example didn't have the space.

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Torsten Seemann
Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium, Monash University, Australia
http://www.vicbioinformatics.com/