[BioPython] Connecting to Genbank

[Glen Spraggon]

Hi Again,
         No gi number that I have tried works there appears to be no
connection you can try gi|15834378 but the same sort of call works with
BioPerl.

Cheers

Glen

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bienstman [mailto:Peter.Bienstman at UGent.be] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 11:24 PM
To: Glen Spraggon; biopython at biopython.org
Subject: Re: [BioPython] Connecting to Genbank


On Wednesday 26 November 2003 02:08, Glen Spraggon wrote:
> Hi,
>       I have just resurrected an old script ( about six months old) 
> that queries Genbank for sequence information using the gi number. The

> scrips gets the gi information by calling
>
> Gi_list=Genbank.search_for("gi|number")
>
> Then sequence information is extracted from Gi_list. The problem is 
> that although this used to work it now it doesn't. It doesn't throw an

> exception either just keeps going. Has something changed with Genbank.

Could you send us the accession number where the problem occurs?
Otherwise 
it's hard to track down what happens ;-)

Cheers,

Peter

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