[MOBY-l] Processing MOBY responses: MOBYSHoundGetGenBankff as an example

[Frank Gibbons]

Mark,

One topic which I'm having great difficulty with, and for which I can find 
no obvious examples, is how to parse the response from a service. As was 
discussed at the MOBY meeting in CSHL,  there's a somewhat different syntax 
for queries and responses. The examples I have found describe how to 
provide a service (how to handle incoming requests). None talks about how 
to parse incoming responses.

Now perhaps I'm just being really dense here: the difference really 
couldn't be that big. I've tried running your MOBYSHoundGetGetBankff with 
NCBI_gi:431260 as the query, I get back a nice fat response. But I'm really 
having difficulty extracting the information. Do you (or anyone else on the 
list) have an example you could post, showing how to deal with the response 
from a query? Maybe there are examples out there already - if so, I'd 
really appreciate someone pointing them out to me.

Thanks for that, and thanks to yourself and the other CSHL::MOBYers for a 
great introduction to things MOBY.

-Frank

PhD, Computational Biologist,
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