On 18 Jun 2010, at 13:07, Tiwari, Bela wrote: > Dear all, > > I have a set of accession numbers and I want to retrieve the organism that > the sequence is associated with - i.e. the content of the OS line in an embl > file. I don't need the taxonomic id, and I don't need to start traversing > taxonomy trees. I want to do this by accessing remote databases (via srs, as > configured in my emboss.defaults file), rather than indexing databases > locally. So the output I want would be a text mapping like: > > accession : species > > where species is taken from the OS line of a database entry.
how about: entret embl:XXXX stdout | grep ^OS Is that close enough? Simon. _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
