database info

[Marc Logghe]

Hi Koen,
You probably also have to set the proxy in your .embossrc file:
SET emboss_proxy "yourproxy:80"
Marc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koen van der Drift [mailto:kvddrift at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 9:03 PM
> To: Peter Rice
> Cc: emboss at embnet.org
> Subject: Re: database info
> 
> 
> At 17:50 +0100 4/28/03, Peter Rice wrote:
> 
> >DB genbank [ type: N
> >    method: srswww format: genbank release: NCBI
> >    comment: "Genbank from NCBI"
> >    url: "http://cbr-rbc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/srs6bin/cgi-bin/wgetz"
> >  ]
> >DB embl [ type: N
> >    method: srswww format: embl release: EBI
> >    comment: "EMBL from EBI"
> >    url: "http://srs.ebi.ac.uk/srs7bin/cgi-bin/wgetz"
> >  ]
> >
> >
> 
> 
> I added these entries to .embossrc, and they then indeed show up when 
> I run showdb.
> 
> Following the example in the tutorial 
> (http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Software/EMBOSS/Doc/Tutorial/node11.html), 
> I now  run seqret, but get the following error:
> 
> Input sequence(s): embl:xlrhodop
> Error: Unable to read sequence 'embl:xlrhodop'
> 
> 
> Do I need to do something else before I can use seqret (and 
> other programs)?
> 
> Is there a place in the docs on how to use/access databases?
> 
> 
> 
> thanks again,
> 
> - Koen.
>