[Biopython-dev] Which NCBI / Entrez module?

Michiel De Hoon mdehoon at c2b2.columbia.edu
Tue Aug 14 10:40:53 UTC 2007


Peter wrote:
> Is anyone here very familiar with either of these modules? Should we 
> depreciate Bio.WWW.NCBI in favour of Bio.EUtils - or perhaps just update 
> its documentation to recommend using that instead?

As Bio.EUtils is more advanced than Bio.WWW.NCBI, I'd be in favor of
deprecating Bio.WWW.NCBI if there is sufficient documentation for Bio.EUtils.
Currently though, we have some documentation for Bio.WWW.NCBI but little for
Bio.EUtils.

--Michiel.


Michiel de Hoon
Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Columbia University
1150 St Nicholas Avenue
New York, NY 10032



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