[Biopython] [Entrez/eFetch] "reasonable" package

[Leighton Pritchard]

On 3 Dec 2015, at 09:07, Leighton Pritchard <leighton.pritchard at hutton.ac.uk<mailto:leighton.pritchard at hutton.ac.uk>> wrote:

iii) Run complete query, saving record IDs to webhistory (this could at times identify thousands of records) e.g. here, record has [“WebEnv”] and [“QueryKey”] fields that allow you to recover the results later. It also has a [‘Count’] field that tells you how many total records you should expect back. In my experience this caps at 100,000 - even though sometimes there have been more records to return. I have no robust, reliable way to overcome this.

Sorry - I was getting confused. It’s not the Esearch() query that caps, it’s the number of Elink records that were returned. My mistake.

L.

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