- From: Larry Hunter <Larry.Hunter@uchsc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 10:58:59 -0600
- To: markw@illuminae.com
- Cc: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:16 -0700, Mark Wilkinson wrote: > Hmmmm.... yeah, that's true... but my "gut" does a back-flip when I am > forced to use a URI that refers to a web page, complete with fancy NCBI > decorations and menu's You're mistaken about that. If you don't want the decorations, then use the efetch URL: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi? which just brings back the raw data. Details here: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/efetch_help.html Format the query to return XML or ASN.1, and there you are. Look, I don't think these are very pretty interfaces, either, but it is possible to do what Alan wanted to do with no additional work. Larry
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