[Bioperl-l] NT contigs and Bio::DB::GenBank

Hilmar Lapp hilmarl@yahoo.com
Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:47:51 -0800


Joel Martin wrote:
> 
> NT contigs contain sequence, but entrez doesn't display it in the default
> genbank format. You have to request fasta format, calling
> 
> $dbobj->request_format("fasta");
> 
> before
> 
> my $seq = $dbobj->get_Seq_by_acc($accession);
> 
> makes it work for me.
> 

We should put this into some docs, e.g. the module POD and
bptutorial. In addition, I am realizing that the GenBank.pm POD
mentions that batch mode might be supported in the future. It has
been supported already for quite a while, right?

	Hilmar
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