class Bio::NCBI::REST

Description¶ ↑

The Bio::NCBI::REST class provides REST client for the NCBI E-Utilities

Entrez Programming Utilities Help:

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/
( redirected from www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/ )

Constants

NCBI_INTERVAL

Run retrieval scripts on weekends or between 9 pm and 5 am Eastern Time weekdays for any series of more than 100 requests. -> Not implemented yet in BioRuby

Wait for 1/3 seconds. NCBI’s restriction is: “Make no more than 3 requests every 1 second.”.

Public Class Methods

efetch (*args)

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
391 def self.efetch(*args)
392   self.new.efetch(*args)
393 end

einfo ()

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
379 def self.einfo
380   self.new.einfo
381 end

esearch (*args)

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
383 def self.esearch(*args)
384   self.new.esearch(*args)
385 end

esearch_count (*args)

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
387 def self.esearch_count(*args)
388   self.new.esearch_count(*args)
389 end

Public Instance Methods

efetch (ids, hash = {}, step = 100)

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
355 def efetch(ids, hash = {}, step = 100)
356   serv = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi"
357   opts = default_parameters.merge({ "retmode"  => "text" })
358   opts.update(hash)
359 
360   case ids
361   when Array
362     list = ids
363   else
364     list = ids.to_s.split(/\s*,\s*/)
365   end
366 
367   result = ""
368   0.step(list.size, step) do |i|
369     opts["id"] = list[i, step].join(',')
370     unless opts["id"].empty?
371       response = ncbi_post_form(serv, opts)
372       result += response.body
373     end
374   end
375   return result.strip
376   #return result.strip.split(/\n\n+/)
377 end

Retrieve database entries by given IDs and using E-Utils (efetch) service.

For information on the possible arguments, see

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.EFetch

Usage¶ ↑

ncbi = Bio::NCBI::REST.new
ncbi.efetch("185041", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"gb", "retmode" => "xml"})
ncbi.efetch("J00231", {"db"=>"nuccore", "rettype"=>"gb", "retmode"=>"xml"})
ncbi.efetch("AAA52805", {"db"=>"protein", "rettype"=>"gb"})

Bio::NCBI::REST.efetch("185041", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"gb", "retmode" => "xml"})
Bio::NCBI::REST.efetch("J00231", {"db"=>"nuccore", "rettype"=>"gb"})
Bio::NCBI::REST.efetch("AAA52805", {"db"=>"protein", "rettype"=>"gb"})

Arguments:

ids: list of NCBI entry IDs (required)
hash: hash of E-Utils option {“db” => “nuccore”, “rettype” => “gb”}
- db: “sequences”, “nucleotide”, “protein”, “pubmed”, “omim”, …
- retmode: “text”, “xml”, “html”, …
- rettype: “gb”, “gbc”, “medline”, “count”,…
step: maximum number of entries retrieved at a time

Returns: String

einfo ()

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
218 def einfo
219   serv = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi"
220   opts = default_parameters.merge({})
221   response = ncbi_post_form(serv, opts)
222   result = response.body
223   list = result.scan(/<DbName>(.*?)<\/DbName>/m).flatten
224   return list
225 end

List the NCBI database names E-Utils (einfo) service

eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi

pubmed protein nucleotide nuccore nucgss nucest structure genome
books cancerchromosomes cdd gap domains gene genomeprj gensat geo
gds homologene journals mesh ncbisearch nlmcatalog omia omim pmc
popset probe proteinclusters pcassay pccompound pcsubstance snp
taxonomy toolkit unigene unists

Usage¶ ↑

ncbi = Bio::NCBI::REST.new
ncbi.einfo

Bio::NCBI::REST.einfo

Returns: array of string (database names)

esearch (str, hash = {}, limit = nil, step = 10000)

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
286 def esearch(str, hash = {}, limit = nil, step = 10000)
287   serv = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi"
288   opts = default_parameters.merge({ "term" => str })
289   opts.update(hash)
290 
291   case opts["rettype"]
292   when "count"
293     count = esearch_count(str, opts)
294     return count
295   else
296     retstart = 0
297     retstart = hash["retstart"].to_i if hash["retstart"]
298 
299     limit ||= hash["retmax"].to_i if hash["retmax"]
300     limit ||= 100 # default limit is 100
301     limit = esearch_count(str, opts) if limit == 0   # unlimit
302 
303     list = []
304     0.step(limit, step) do |i|
305       retmax = [step, limit - i].min
306       opts.update("retmax" => retmax, "retstart" => i + retstart)
307       response = ncbi_post_form(serv, opts)
308       result = response.body
309       list += result.scan(/<Id>(.*?)<\/Id>/m).flatten
310     end
311     return list
312   end
313 end

Search the NCBI database by given keywords using E-Utils (esearch) service and returns an array of entry IDs.

For information on the possible arguments, see

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.ESearch
( redirected from eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/n/helpeutils/chapter4/#chapter4.ESearch )
( redirected from eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html )

Usage¶ ↑

ncbi = Bio::NCBI::REST.new
ncbi.esearch("tardigrada", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"count"})
ncbi.esearch("tardigrada", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"gb"})
ncbi.esearch("yeast kinase", {"db"=>"nuccore", "rettype"=>"gb", "retmax"=>5})

Bio::NCBI::REST.esearch("tardigrada", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"count"})
Bio::NCBI::REST.esearch("tardigrada", {"db"=>"nucleotide", "rettype"=>"gb"})
Bio::NCBI::REST.esearch("yeast kinase", {"db"=>"nuccore", "rettype"=>"gb", "retmax"=>5})

Arguments:

str: query string (required)
hash: hash of E-Utils option {“db” => “nuccore”, “rettype” => “gb”}
- db: “sequences”, “nucleotide”, “protein”, “pubmed”, “taxonomy”, …
- retmode: “text”, “xml”, “html”, …
- rettype: “gb”, “medline”, “count”, …
- retmax: integer (default 100)
- retstart: integer
- field:
  - “titl”: Title [TI]
  - “tiab”: Title/Abstract [TIAB]
  - “word”: Text words [TW]
  - “auth”: Author [AU]
  - “affl”: Affiliation [AD]
  - “jour”: Journal [TA]
  - “vol”: Volume [VI]
  - “iss”: Issue [IP]
  - “page”: First page [PG]
  - “pdat”: Publication date [DP]
  - “ptyp”: Publication type [PT]
  - “lang”: Language [LA]
  - “mesh”: MeSH term [MH]
  - “majr”: MeSH major topic [MAJR]
  - “subh”: Mesh sub headings [SH]
  - “mhda”: MeSH date [MHDA]
  - “ecno”: EC/RN Number [rn]
  - “si”: Secondary source ID [SI]
  - “uid”: PubMed ID (PMID) [UI]
  - “fltr”: Filter [FILTER] [SB]
  - “subs”: Subset [SB]
- reldate: 365
- mindate: 2001
- maxdate: 2002/01/01
- datetype: “edat”
limit: maximum number of entries to be returned (0 for unlimited; nil for the “retmax” value in the hash or the internal default value (=100))
step: maximum number of entries retrieved at a time

Returns: array of entry IDs or a number of results

esearch_count (str, hash = {})

Source

    # File lib/bio/io/ncbirest.rb
317 def esearch_count(str, hash = {})
318   serv = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi"
319   opts = default_parameters.merge({ "term" => str })
320   opts.update(hash)
321   opts.update("rettype" => "count")
322   response = ncbi_post_form(serv, opts)
323   result = response.body
324   count = result.scan(/<Count>(.*?)<\/Count>/m).flatten.first.to_i
325   return count
326 end

Arguments: same as esearch method
Returns: array of entry IDs or a number of results