Andrew St. Jean wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I'm looking for a way to download large numbers of genbank format
> sequence files. By large numbers, I mean thousands. Does anybody know
> of any programs available to do the transfer preferably by ftp? I know
> about the online batch retrieve offered by NCBI but I'm looking for a
> program I can automate. Please send replies to:
>>andrew at bio01.bio.uottawa.ca>> Andrew St. Jean
> University of Ottawa
You could just ftp the entire database (assuming you have enough
storage) from ncbi.nlm.nih.gov using anaonymous ftp. Resides in /genbank
as a series of compressed files.
Gerard
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