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

[Mark Wilkinson]

Hi Heikki, 

it was weird... I would make exactly the same call over and over again
and about 1 in 4 would actually return, the rest gave an error HTML page
(to STDERR) saying that the problem was "temporary" and blah blah blah.

It was the same problem both with the SeqStream and the single getSeq
calls so I wasn't able to work around it.  Eventually I just gave up.

Anyway, if it works today, that's good :-) 

Cheers from the frozen north!

M


On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:17, Heikki Lehvaslaiho wrote:
> 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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Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>
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