[Biopython] Querying NCBI

[Peter]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Michael S. Koeris
<michael.koeris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks much!
>
> The tutorial actually just mentions parsing out from direct queries on page
> 91. Could be useful to mention this approach to speed up queries.
>

Which version of the tutorial do you have? I'm looking at page 91 in the
current PDF (included with Biopython 1.52) and that is the start of the
section on EFetch. At the end of that section (bottom of page 93, start
of page 94) is an example checking if a GenBank file exists locally, and
if not, downloading it.

http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.pdf
http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/tutorial/Tutorial.html

I'm hoping you are looking at an older version, but if not, maybe we
can re-order that section or something to make it clearer. Feedback
on documentation is very useful.

Peter

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