[Bioperl-l] suggestion for a new module

[Mikaela Ilinca Gabrielli]

Hello everybody,

I was looking for a feature I hoped to find in Bioperl but I haven't found
anything so I'd like to suggest the building of one.

It's about retrieving information on sequence status in NCBI databases.
Biperl works fine for download of sequences and one gets the output in any
format one wants. But(!), sometimes these sequences are no longer valid,
they're just ghosts remaining in databases. This is very important
information if you consider working with them. So I suggest a
straight-forward way of retrieving that information. NCBI has already a
"Sequence Revision History" - tool at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/sutils/girevhist.cgi where sequences get
status of 'dead', 'suppressed' or 'live'. It would therefore be great to
parse such a result and retrieve the wanted status for a batch of sequences
as a bioperl module complement.

I hope my point is undestandable.

If such a script already exists then I appologize for bothering you and ask
you kindly to show me the way. It would simplify my life greatly at the
moment.

Best regards,

Mikaela