[Bioperl-l] Retrieving taxonomy information from a GenBank file

[Jason Stajich]

You want the species object ($seq->species)  -- see the Seq HOWTO,  
much of the Seq API is explained.
  http://bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:Feature-Annotation#The_Species_Object

-jason
On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:27 PM, ANJAN PURKAYASTHA wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm using the following code to access the "ORGANISM" tag value for  
> the
> record NC_002526.
> I get a value of 0 even though the ORGANISM tag  has a value.  Any  
> idea how
> this might be corrected?
> Thanks.
> Anjan
>
>
> my $gb= new Bio::DB::GenBank;
>
> my $seq = $gb->get_Seq_by_acc('NC_002526');
>
> my $des= $seq->get_tag_values("ORGANISM");
>
> -- 
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> bioinformatics analyst
> whitehead institute for biomedical research
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>
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Jason Stajich
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