[Bioperl-l] how to retrieve organism name from accession number?

[Chris Fields]

On Dec 25, 2009, at 9:52 PM, Mark A. Jensen wrote:

> Bhakti,
> The following example (using EUtilities) may serve your purpose:
> 
> use Bio::DB::EUtilities;
> 
> ...
> You probably will need to break up your 30000 into chunks
> (say, 1000-3000 each), and do the above on each chunk with a
> 
> sleep 3;
> 
> or so separating the queries.
> MAJ

The 'sleep 3' is built-in and now (on main trunk) matches NCBI's current spec of 3 queries/sec.

chris