[Bioperl-l] Problems getting sequence with Bio::DB::GenBank

[gert thijs]

Hi,

I have used Bio::DB::GenBank to download sequences for quite some time now,
but recently those scripts cannot do their job anymore.
I have been using the following code a lot and it worked fine:
   $accn = 'ab013396';
   $gb = new Bio::DB::GenBank;
   $seq = $gb->get_Seq_by_acc($accn);

This throws the following exception:
-------------------- EXCEPTION --------------------
MSG: Unable to get seq for id ab013396, is it really a genbank id?

CONTEXT: Error in uNKNOWN CONTEXT
SCRIPT: ./my_getseq.pl
STACK: 
Bio::DB::GenBank::get_Seq_by_id(121)
Bio::DB::GenBank::get_Seq_by_acc(142)
main::./my_getseq.pl(26)
---------------------------------------------------

Can anybody help me out here?

Gert Thijs


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