Warren Gallin | 19 Aug 08:24
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EUtilities help

Hi,

	Is there a cogent document on using Bio::DB::EUtilities with Bioperl  
1.5.2 around somewhere?

	We upgraded and now my scripts are broken when invoking it.

	Any pointers appreciated.

Thanks,

Warren Gallin
Dave Messina | 19 Aug 09:30
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Re: EUtilities help

Hi Warren,

Are you upgrading to 1.5.2 or downgrading from bioperl-live?

If the former, you might consider going all the way to bioperl-live, whose
EUtilities support is improved significantly and documented extensively
here:

http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:EUtilities_Cookbook

If the latter, I don't believe there is, but Chris Fields will know for sure
and will probably chime in.

Dave

To get bioperl-live
as a tarball: http://www.bioperl.org/DIST/nightly_builds/
or via Subversion: http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Using_Subversion
Chris Fields | 19 Aug 19:39
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Re: EUtilities help

As mentioned in previous posts and in the original POD, the original  
Bio::DB::EUtilities was experimental (unstable API).  It is deprecated  
in favor of the bioperl-live interface, which splits the user agent  
and parameter handling (Bio::DB::EUtilities, EUtilParameters) from the  
parsers (Bio::Tools::EUtilities).  Unfortunately, the original design  
was too rushed so any XML changes broke the tools; I basically had to  
start from the ground up again.  Any changes to eutil output should  
now be easier to deal with (famous last words).

I am still planning on adding a few things to it (including tests for  
the parser and user agent) but it shouldn't change substantially from  
what is in the cookbook.

chris

On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:30 AM, Dave Messina wrote:

> Hi Warren,
>
> Are you upgrading to 1.5.2 or downgrading from bioperl-live?
>
> If the former, you might consider going all the way to bioperl-live,  
> whose
> EUtilities support is improved significantly and documented  
> extensively
> here:
>
> http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/HOWTO:EUtilities_Cookbook
>
> If the latter, I don't believe there is, but Chris Fields will know  
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