[Bioperl-l] GI to taxonomy

[Brian Osborne]

Chris,

Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez uses this URL by default:

http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/

Should it be using this one?

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/

Brian O.

On Sep 13, 2013, at 4:06 AM, Alexey Morozov <alexeymorozov1991 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> I have a bunch of fasta genomes annotated only by their GI numbers, and
> need to get a taxonomy for all of them. So I rewrote get_tree method from
> Bio::DB::Taxonomy:
> 
> 12 open GIS, GI_FILE;
> 13 my $tax_db=Bio::DB::Taxonomy->new(source=>'entrez');
> 14 my $tree;
> 15 while (<GIS>)
> 16         {
> 17         print "Requesting data for GI $_\n";
> 18         my $taxon=$tax_db->get_taxon(-gi=>"$_",-db=>'nucleotide');
> 19         if ($@){die $@;}#Catch exception and die, just in case
> 20                 # or die "Cannot get taxonomy data for GI$_:$!\n";
> 21         if ($tree)
> 22                 {
> 23                 $tree->merge_lineage($taxon);
> 24                 }else
> 25                 {
> 26                 $tree=Bio::Tree::Tree->new(-node=>$taxon);
> 27                 }
> 28         }
> 
> This (line 18) way to invoke Bio::DB::Taxonomy->get_taxon is documented and
> I expect to get taxon objects. Yet all I get is
> 
> 
> --------------------- WARNING ---------------------
> MSG: Must have provided a valid HASHref for -params
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Requesting data for GI 15604717
> 
> 
> ------------- EXCEPTION: Bio::Root::Exception -------------
> MSG: Can't query website: 400 URL must be absolute
> STACK: Error::throw
> STACK: Bio::Root::Root::throw /usr/share/perl5/Bio/Root/Root.pm:472
> STACK: Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez::get_taxon
> /usr/share/perl5/Bio/DB/Taxonomy/entrez.pm:247
> STACK: ./get_tax:18
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Directly using Bio::DB::Taxonomy::entrez doesn't help, GI numbers load OK,
> so I have no clue what happened.
> Need help.
> -- 
> Alexey Morozov,
> LIN SB RAS, bioinformatics group.
> Irkutsk, Russia.
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