class Bio::Fetch::EBI

An instance of this class works the same as:

obj = Bio::Fetch.new("http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/dbfetch/dbfetch")
obj.database = "ena_sequence"

See the documents of Bio::Fetch for more details.

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/fetch.rb
103 def initialize(url = URL)
104   @database = "ena_sequence"
105   super
106 end

For the usage, see the document of Bio::Fetch.new.

Calls superclass method Bio::Fetch::new

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/fetch.rb
122 def self.query(*args)
123   self.new.fetch(*args)
124 end

Shortcut for using EBI Dbfetch server. You can fetch an entry without creating an instance of Bio::Fetch::EBI. This method uses EBI Dbfetch server www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/dbfetch/dbfetch .

Example:

puts Bio::Fetch::EBI.query('refseq','NM_123456')
puts Bio::Fetch::EBI.query('ena_sequence','J00231')

Arguments:

database: name of database to query (see Bio::Fetch#databases to get list of supported databases)
id: single ID or ID list separated by commas or white space
style: [raw|html] (default = ‘raw’)
format: name of output format (see Bio::Fetch#formats)