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How can I use the epost function?

Open mafaves opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Dear developer,

I am trying to download a large number of sequences that I have obtained from a blastp. I have obtained a file with the IDs of those proteins and now I would like to pass them to the program. I have seen that the code contains the epost function (use_epost) but I don't know how to use it properly. Would you be so kind to tell me how I could use that function to download the fasta sequences?

Thank you in advance

mafaves avatar Nov 23 '22 13:11 mafaves

Dear @avesillo88 , As of now, NCBI Mass Sequence Downloader cannot use an accession list as input. However, since it already uses epost adding such functionality should not be that hard. I will keep the issue open, and once the opportunity arises I will try to implement that feature, which is obviously useful.

Best, Francisco

StuntsPT avatar Nov 25 '22 09:11 StuntsPT