[Bioperl-l] Bug in get_Seq_by_acc() function?

[Jason Stajich]

Make sure you are using bioperl 1.0.  This was a phenotype of a bug that
has been fixed since 0.7.2


On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Hong (Henry) Lu wrote:

>
> I used get_Seq_by_acc() function to obtain genbank sequence in my
> intranet web application. However, I encountered problem as below:
>
> Accession "L12691" will not work properly for the function. The Genbank
> sequence I obtained is AC090389 using fuction
> $gbobj->get_Seq_by_acc("L12691");
>
> Under NCBI web page, If I type in "L12691", I will get both
> AC090389  L12691. "AC090389" is really unrelated
> sequence to "L12691" thought it has word "L12691" in its comment field.
>
> I had always assumed that I could obtain an uniq sequence using
> get_Seq_by_acc() function. Now I have to reconsider the issue.  How can
> get_Seq_by_acc() function report an unrelated sequence?
>
>

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Jason Stajich
Duke University
jason@cgt.mc.duke.edu