[Biopython] fetch random id
Brad Chapman
chapmanb at 50mail.com
Fri Nov 13 12:20:33 EST 2009
Hi Yvan;
> I have to crash test a webservice so was wondering if any one knows a way to
> get random sequence id from swissprot or genbank?
ExPASy can give you a random SwissProt entry:
http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/get-random-entry.pl?S
See the ExPASy documentation for all of their URLs:
http://ca.expasy.org/expasy_urls.html
You can use this to get the UniProt ID from the redirect:
>>> import urllib2
>>> u = urllib2.urlopen("http://www.expasy.org/cgi-bin/get-random-entry.pl?S")
>>> u.geturl()
'http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/Q824C8'
Hope this helps,
Brad
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