[BioSQL-l] Download from GenBank to BioSQL

[Trevor Bell]

I would like to add a few thousand nucleotide sequences, which match a
search phrase, to a BioSQL database. There are obviously many different
ways of doing this. What is the "best practice" approach?

Is it better to search via the website, download al the full records as a
single file, parse this file offline and add to the database, rather than
querying the entries one by one and adding them? I'm conscious of the
overhead/load on the NCBI servers of fetching thousands of sequences
individually.

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Dr Trevor G. Bell
BSc.(Hons), H.Dip.Ed.(PG), MSc., PhD