[BioPerl] [Bioperl-l] Bio::DB::GenBank (fwd)

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

Mark,

I replied first before seeing your message. After that I tried the script with 
several accession numbers. All worked. Seems to me that the what ever glitch 
it was is gone new.

	-Heikki

On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 2:55 pm, Mark Wilkinson wrote:
> Yeah, that code stopped working "reliably" yesterday.  Only about 1 in 4
> calls were getting through yesterday afternoon, and the ones that did
> make it were taking forever.  It appears to be a problem at GB's end,
> not with the bioperl code.  All my MOBY GB services died inauspiciously
>
> :-)
>
> As a result, I am giving up on GB as a data host, and will now serve GB
> data through SeqHound - a Canadian warehouse of GB/SP/... data that
> updates nightly.  I'm tired of dealing with GB's flakeyness.  Maybe I'm
> unlucky, but the last few times I have tried to do stuff with GB it has
> failed (not bioperl's fault!), so I just can't be bothered with them
> anymore.  I've actually just finished (about to commit!) the re-coding
> of all GB-related MOBY services to work off of SeqHound - they run MUCH
> faster now :-)
>
> Cheers all!
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 08:43, Jason Stajich wrote:
> > 	The Bio::DB::GenBank doesn't work for me now.

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