[Bioperl-l] get_sequence() gets some sequences but not others

[Wollenberg, Kurt (NIH/NIAID)]

Greetings:

I am working on a script to take a list of sequence IDs, extract the
sequences from GenPept, and then run a BLAST search for each of the
retrieved sequences. I am having a problem with the sequence retrieval,
where some sequences are found and others are not and it's not obvious to me
why this is. 

For example, using a text file containing the two following IDs as input:
SKG3_YEAST
NEM1_YEAST

My script 

while( <IN> ) {
  chomp;
  my $seqid = $_;
  my $seq_obj = get_sequence( 'genpept', $seqid );
}

will create a sequence object for the first ID, (print "Accession of
",$seqid," is ",$seq_obj->accession, "\n"; gives me the correct accession
number) but for the second I am told

-------------------- WARNING ---------------------
MSG: id (NEM1_YEAST) does not exist
---------------------------------------------------

When I pull up these records using the Entrez cross-databse search in my web
browser I find genpept records for both SKG3_YEAST and NEM1_YEAST (using
these search terms). In both records these IDs reside in the same field
("DBSOURCE    swissprot: locus") so I'm mystified why get_sequence finds one
but not the other. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Kurt Wollenberg, Ph.D.
Phylogenetics and Sequence Analysis Consultant
Biocomputing Research Consulting Section
Bioinformatics and Scientific IT Program (BSIP)
NIH/NIAID/OTIS
Contractor, Lockheed Martin
http://bioinformatics.niaid.nih.gov

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