[Bioperl-l] limit on accessing NCBI/GenBank

[Lincoln Stein]

It's also an option that you can turn off at object creation time.  Or extend 
to a longer delay, if you prefer.

I agree with Ewan.  If you need to do heavy data minining, do it locally.

Lincoln

On Thursday 13 February 2003 03:59 am, Ewan Birney wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > Actually the code is very clever and will impose the delay even if you
> > have an external loop.  At least if you call using a global clever.
> >
> > However it won't catch you if you spawn multiple processes on your
> > machine.
>
> In general there is always going to be a way to abuse internet accessible
> servers, so - although at Bioperl we (...I mean lincoln) put in this delay
> loop, of course people can edit the file to remove that or spawn many
> processes.
>
>
> i hope everyone on this list knows that it really is inconsiderate in the
> extreme to run multiple large queries against an internet accessible site.
> If you are getting to this point, it is time to download databases locally
> (and these days with the size of harddisk you get in a "standard"
> machine/laptop/whatever, there really is no excuse not to), and index and
> blast locally. Furthermore you will learn a little about what goes on
> behind the scenes in these cases.
>
>
> So... be a good citizen and download databases...

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Lincoln D. Stein                           Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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