[Bioperl-l] retrieve old sequence versions

[francis@cmmt.ubc.ca]

> From: Heikki Lehvaslaiho <heikki@ebi.ac.uk>

> NCBI now has a page for retrieving older sequence versions:
> 
> 	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/htbin-post/Entrez/girevhist


It should be noted that NCBI has had this very useful page (and
service) up for _many_ years (probably more than 4 years) ...

... just for the record :-)

f.


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> Using that page, I've hacked a new method get_Seq_by_version() into
> Bio::DB::GenBank. As a side effect we got get_Seq_by_gi() and
> get_stream_by_gi().
> 
> Call it    $seq = $gb->get_Seq_by_version('A00002.1');
> 
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> 	-Heikki
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