[Biopython] Needs some NCBI recommendation
lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de
lueck at ipk-gatersleben.de
Sun Jan 3 11:19:50 UTC 2010
Hello and a happy new year!
I'm currently writing a small software, which allows the users to
perform a NCBI online BLAST and to download full records from NCBI via
PubMed IDs in a batch mode.
I would like to limit the BLAST and Download, in order not to abuse
NCBI. What would you suggest for an input limitation for BLAST and
Sequence Download (using efetch)?
In addition I want to ask, whether it's reasonable to use the efecth in
a simple for statement
id_list = ["19304878", "18606172"]
for i in id_list:
handle = Entrez.efetch(db="nucleotide", id=i, rettype="fasta")
print handle.read()
since I need only the raw GenBank or FASTA files?
Thanks for any advice!
Stefanie
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