[Biopython] fetch random id

[Yvan Strahm]

Hello Brad and Peter,

Thanks a lot for the pointers especially the expasy links
Really great
Cheers,
yvan


Brad Chapman wrote:
> 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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