[Bioperl-l] Sequence features - complete sequences

[Marc Logghe]

> I want to retrieve only complete sequences from GenPept 
> records. I'm not
> sure this is possible, because the notation may not be 
> consistent, but I
> was thinking of checking the 'Protein' feature for something like
> <1..>952 (protein here:
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/viewer.fcgi?val=34223805), 
> which says there is more sequence upstream. I have

I think in a lot of cases this means that there _is_ more sequence in _reality_, but not available in the databases (e.g. not a full length cDNA clone). Just because that part was never isolated and thus, not sequenced. Meaning there is no way to fetch the missing sequence information.
Regards,
Marc