[Bioperl-l] GenBank entries creation dates

[Cui, Wenwu (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

Hi, Miguel:

id1_fetch can do it. Detailed instruction can be found at:  

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=toolkit.section.ch_demo.id
1_fetch.html

Here is an example:

>id1_fetch -lt revisions -flat '12:74311105' -fmt fasta
GI        Loaded      DB    Retrieval No.
--        ------      --    -------------
74311105  12/07/2007  NCBI  19766263
74311105  01/23/2007  NCBI  16325656
74311105  03/30/2006  NCBI  13131204
74311105  03/03/2006  NCBI  12915541
74311105  03/02/2006  NCBI  12885275
74311105  12/03/2005  NCBI  12259793
74311105  09/09/2005  NCBI  11257262
74311105  09/09/2005  NCBI  11242667

Wenwu Cui PhD
NCBI/NLM/NIH

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Miguel Pignatelli [mailto:miguel.pignatelli at uv.es]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 6:13 AM
> Cc: bioperl-l at bioperl.org
> Subject: [Bioperl-l] GenBank entries creation dates
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there any way to obtain the date of creation of individual GenBank
> entries? I don't mean the "last revision" date that can be found in
the
> first line of a GenBank file.
> 
> I can access this creation date by looking at the "revision history"
of
> any GenBank entry (for example, see
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/sutils/girevhist.cgi?val=74311105),
> but I need a systematic (and local=fast) way to access this
> information.
> 
> Any help would be very appreciated,
> Thank you very much in advance,
> 
> M;
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