[BioC] Retrieving sequences from NCBI

[Sean Davis]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 4:16 PM, J. Miguel Marin
<jmmarin at est-econ.uc3m.es> wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I do not know whether this is a very simple question but I could not solve
> by myself...
> I would like to know if there exists in Bioconductor something like the
> matlab command "getgenbank". It serves to retrieve sequence information from
> the GenBank database in a simple way, and to download just the sequences to
> analyze them.
> I have seen the GEOquery and seqinr libraries but I could not download some
> given mitochondrial sequences.

Eutils can be used for this.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html

Sean