[Biojava-dev] newbie HOWTO question

[mark.schreiber at novartis.com]

Hello -

You could connect to databases that offer webservices such as NCBI or 
EMBL. For the NCBI look into the eutils link. You can also connect to lots 
of DAS servers for the 'higher' eukaryotes at Ensembl. There is lots of 
stuff really. It mostly depends which organism and what type of data you 
want.

- Mark





Camilo Rostoker <rostokec at cs.ubc.ca>
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Hi,

I'm new to BioJava, and relatively new to Bioinformatics, so please 
excuse my ignorance if I'm looking in the wrong spot altogether...

Is there a way to connect to a remote database and access details about 
specific genes (i.e. description, annotation information, etc)?  For 
example, I have a small Java-based data mining application that performs 
some gene expression analysis using a basic data file that contains just 
the gene name (ie. something like YCR004C -- the systematic name) and I 
would like to be able to pull up as much information as possible about 
that gene from a central repository...

Any help/advice is most appreciated.

Cheers,
Camilo


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Camilo Rostoker                     www.cs.ubc.ca/~rostokec
Department of Computer Science      www.cs.ubc.ca 
University of British Columbia      www.ubc.ca


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