<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’m trying to interrogate the Assembly db using BioPython, in particular Entrez.eqquerry.<br class=""><br class="">Here is a short sample:<br class=""><br class="">from Bio import Entrez<br class="">Entrez.email = “<a href="mailto:mark.e.nadel@gmail.com" class="">mark.e.nadel@gmail.com</a>" <br class="">handle = Entrez.egquery(term="human")<br class="">record = Entrez.read(handle)<br class="">for row in record["eGQueryResult"]:<br class=""> print(row["DbName"], row["Count"])<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Here is what it returned:<br class=""><br class="">pubmed 16538765<br class="">pmc 2632118<br class="">mesh 15606<br class="">books 121016<br class="">pubmedhealth 15915<br class="">omim 16423<br class="">ncbisearch 2108<br class="">nuccore 24393071<br class="">nucgss 2822763<br class="">nucest 10464214<br class="">protein 15851328<br class="">genome 1462<br class="">structure 54639<br class="">taxonomy 1<br class="">snp 164994517<br class="">dbvar 4986177<br class="">gene 3003185<br class="">sra 859530<br class="">biosystems 26219<br class="">unigene 11917<br class="">cdd 2383<br class="">clone 17567234<br class="">popset 35669<br class="">geoprofiles 64608705<br class="">gds 1196509<br class="">homologene 18907<br class="">pccompound 1356<br class="">pcsubstance 68984<br class="">pcassay 384781<br class="">nlmcatalog 104253<br class="">probe 27886166<br class="">gap 53517<br class="">proteinclusters 20<br class="">bioproject 42794<br class="">biosample 2631235<br class=""><br class="">Note that there is no entry for the Assembly db. I have noticed using other queries that a value of 0 is possible for a db.<br class=""><br class="">Can anyone help me with this issue?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class=""><br class="">Mark</body></html>