[Biopython] using efetch to return mesh terms

[Alex Garnett]

Indeed he has! Worked that out for myself about 90 minutes ago; glad the
"wait a couple of days and then put it on SO" strategy turned out
nonetheless. Sorry for what was in hindsight a silly question, folks.


-alex



On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Alex Garnett <axfelix at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In any case, I'm still looking to get this to return mesh
> > terms... any advice?
>
> I see Andrew Dalke (who has made many contributions to Biopython
> in the past) has in the last hour given you some useful advice here:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13652230/cant-get-entrez-to-return-mesh-terms-using-biopython
>
> He pointed out some (older) records do have MESH terms,
>
>
> http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=12654674&retmode=xml
>
> while the newer record you tried doesn't (yet) have any MESH terms:
>
>
> http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&id=23165874&retmode=xml
>
> Peter
>