problem with remote databank access
    Guy Bottu 
    gbottu at ben.vub.ac.be
       
    Fri Aug  3 12:48:02 UTC 2001
    
    
  
from : BEN
	Dear support,
	
While experimenting with remote databank access I noticed the following :
DB GENBANK [ type: N format: genbank method: url
             comment: 'GenBank at Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)'
             url: "http://srs.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/srs6/wgetz?-e+[genbank-acc:%s]"
]
does work fine. However, with :
DB GENBANK [ type: N format: genbank method: url
             comment: 'GenBank at DKFZ (Heidelberg, Germany)'
             
url:"http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/srs/wgetz?-e+[genbank-
acc:%s]"
]
seqret genbank:X15320 retrieves a file :
>ECARGS X15320 Escherichia coli argS gene for arginyl-tRNA-synthetase (EC 
6.1.1.19
The problem is probably that at the DKFZ they index the databank in GCG format. 
However, replacing "format: genbank" by "format: gcg" does not work.
	Guy Bottu
    
    
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