problem with remote databank access

Guy Bottu gbottu at ben.vub.ac.be
Fri Aug 3 12:48:02 UTC 2001


from : BEN

	Dear support,
	
While experimenting with remote databank access I noticed the following :

DB GENBANK [ type: N format: genbank method: url
             comment: 'GenBank at Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)'
             url: "http://srs.pasteur.fr/cgi-bin/srs6/wgetz?-e+[genbank-acc:%s]"
]

does work fine. However, with :

DB GENBANK [ type: N format: genbank method: url
             comment: 'GenBank at DKFZ (Heidelberg, Germany)'
             
url:"http://genius.embnet.dkfz-heidelberg.de/menu/cgi-bin/srs/wgetz?-e+[genbank-
acc:%s]"
]

seqret genbank:X15320 retrieves a file :

>ECARGS X15320 Escherichia coli argS gene for arginyl-tRNA-synthetase (EC 
6.1.1.19

The problem is probably that at the DKFZ they index the databank in GCG format. 
However, replacing "format: genbank" by "format: gcg" does not work.

	Guy Bottu




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