[Bioperl-l] ACC -> Organism question

[Jason Stajich]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Henrik Nilsson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If I have a valid Genbank accession number, is there some automated way
> to find out to what organism the sequence belongs? I'd like send a valid
> Genbank accession number and get back the organism name - can this be
> done using bioperl?

You can get the seq from genbank via
Bio::DB::GenBank, and then ask for the species with
$seq->species() [this will return a Bio::Species object]



>
> If not, how would you do it?
>
> Yours,
>
> Henrik Nilsson
>
>
>
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Jason Stajich
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