[Bioperl-l] xml sequence download from ncbi

[Geer, Lewis (NLM)]

Hi, 

Sequence download using an xml format derived from our asn.1 standard format
is now available from Entrez.  For an example, try
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.cgi?cmd&save=on&view=xml&val=18279
15  where val is the sequence gi number.  Note that this xml output is based
on our asn.1 records which are both complete and complex -- we may end up
making a genbank flatfile-like version, especially since there are small
mismatches between the asn.1 and xml languages that make the xml a bit more
complex than if xml was our native format.

We'd be interested in seeing comments!

Lewis