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URL

Modes: s

URL uses a defined web server to retreive a specific entry. EMBOSS may fail if the HTML causes complications with parsing of the entry.


DB mydb [
# required parameters
    method: url
    format: genbank
    url: "http://www.infobiogen.fr/srs5bin/cgi-bin/wgetz?-e+[genbank-id:%s]"
#optional parameters
    type: N
    comment: "Genbank by ID from InfoBiogen"
]
The %s in the URL string indicates where EMBOSS will insert the identifier portion of the USA.



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