[Biojava-l] NCBI SOAP interface

[Bruno Aranda - Dev]

Hi Russell,

Maybe now it's a bit late to answer but, anyway, I've tested the NCBI web
services and they work ok. Here is how I run the Esearch service (you will
get a list of GI for the query given):

		// Make a service
            EUtilsServiceLocator service = new EUtilsServiceLocator();

            // Now use the service to get access to operations
            EUtilsServiceSoap utils = service.geteUtilsServiceSoap();

            // Make the actual call
            _eSearchRequest parameters = new _eSearchRequest();
            parameters.setDb("pubmed");
            parameters.setTerm("cancer");
            parameters.setReldate(new Integer(60));
            parameters.setDatetype("edat");
		
            _eSearchResult res = utils.run_eSearch(parameters);

		// prints the number of results
            System.out.println("RESULTS: "+res.getRetMax());
    
            // print the GIs
            IdListType list = res.getIdList();
            String[] ids = list.getId();
            for(int i=0; i<ids.length; i++)
            {
               System.out.println(ids[i]);
            }

Well, good luck with your searches!

Bruno