NCLEVER VERSION 4.0 RELEASED
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Keywords: NCBI Entrez command-line search tool batch interactive
Version 4.0 of the nclever search tool is now available.
nclever is a text-based shell that can be used to query the
Medline, Protein and Nucleotide databases of NCBI's Entrez
network server. It can be used interactively as a replacement
for NCBI's Entrez browser in environments where graphical
interfaces are unavailable (or simply not desirable). It can
also be used as a batch access tool, to perform automatic
queries. Under the control of other programs (such as Perl
or shell scripts) it becomes a versatile search engine,
allowing automation of tasks that are impossible to do with
Entrez' own GUI browser.
New features include:
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- Support for all Entrez field indexes; when connecting to
the Entrez server the program will automatically fetch
the list of legal search fields; nclever's new "Search"
command can be used to query those fields.
- No external support data files required; previous versions
needed the administrator to install and maintain several
such files, but now having a nclever executable is enough.
- See also the CHANGES.txt file (on the FTP server and
in the source distribution) for more information.
Availability:
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- This program is 100% free.
- UNIX sources are available at
ftp://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/pub/nclever/
You need to install the latest NCBI programming toolkit
in order to compile the program. This toolkit is available at
ftp://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/toolbox/ncbi_tools/
- We also provide precompiled binaries for Solaris 2.6 in
the subdirectory
ftp://megasun.bch.umontreal.ca/pub/nclever/Binaries/Solaris2.6/
(We welcome your help in providing binaries for other platforms)
Contact information:
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- For more information, comments and technical support, write
to Pierre Rioux, ogmp at megasun.bch.umontreal.ca
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