[Biopython] History, Efetch, and returned records limits

[Mariam Reyad Rizkallah]

I never considered asking NCBI. "Hey there! I need to get10 million records
from different taxa from you, is it really limited to 10,000!? How about a
workaround!?" I will ask them though!

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Fields, Christopher J <
cjfields at illinois.edu> wrote:

> On Apr 16, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Peter Cock wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Mariam Reyad Rizkallah
> > <mrrizkalla at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> OH WOW!
> >>
> >> It works like charm! Peter, thank you very much for insight and for
> taking
> >> the time to fix my script.
> >>
> >> I do appreciate. Thank you.
> >>
> >> Mariam
> >> Blog post
> >> here:
> http://opensourcepharmacist.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/the-community-biopython-overcomes-limitations/
> >
> > Did you contact the NCBI to see where that 10,000 limit was coming from?
> >
> > Peter
>
> +1, I'm curious about that as well.  OTOH, I've never tried it.
>
> chris
>
>