[BioPython] Connecting to Genbank

[Peter Bienstman]

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Ah, so it's not a parsing problem then.

I'm not familiar with the network access code to GenBank, so perhaps somebody 
else can help you here.  Brad?

Peter

On Wednesday 26 November 2003 16:39, Glen Spraggon wrote:
> 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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