Hi, the entrez method looks at the type (N or P) to formulate the eutils request to the ncbi server. As NP_ is a protein sequence, the database specified in the request must be protein and not nucleotide. So you need two separate entries in emboss.default for nucleotide and protein sequences.
David. [email protected] schrieb am 26/01/2011 09:13:27: > Hello, > > i am not sure if I did it the right way. I wanted to access the entrez > database, because in general I get my sequences from there. I putted > this entry into my emboss.default: > > DB entrez [ > type: N > format: genbank > method: entrez > fields: "id acc gi sv des org key" > url: "http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery"; > ] > > Then i tried to retrieve the data with the entrez id. In most cases > this works, in some not. For example seqret entrez:NM_000527 works, > but seqret entrez:NP_000518 does not: "Error: Unable to read sequence > 'entrez:NP_000518'" > > Can you help me what I did wrong? > > Ones more what I want: I want to give the entrez id and retrieve then > the corresponding sequence. > > Thanks, > Wolfgang > _______________________________________________ > EMBOSS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
