[BiO BB] Know how to use sort in NCBI Entrez web services ESearch?

[Mike Marchywka]

I think I have accused them of not supporting just about everything but they keep
answering my questions. The eutil help desk is very responsive- I would suggest trying
them and get back to us with the answer or a link to whatever you are talking about.

I used to do all this stuff with java until a linux guy got me hooked on scripts.
So far, I haven't found any text processing that isn't easier using the simple
search/fetch in a perl or bash script. Do you have a link describing what you are using
and what it is supposed to do?

One complaint I have with perl under cygwin is that I quickly end up with
hash tables thrashing through VM. I could probably fix this with c++ or java but generally 
it is just an annoyance rather than a barrier.



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-----Original Message-----
From: bio_bulletin_board-bounces+mmarchywka=eyewonder.com at bioinformatics.org [mailto:bio_bulletin_board-bounces+mmarchywka=eyewonder.com at bioinformatics.org]On Behalf Of Peter Andrews
Sent: WednesdayMay-17-2006 05:35 PM
To: bio_bulletin_board at bioinformatics.org
Subject: [BiO BB] Know how to use sort in NCBI Entrez web services ESearch?


I am using the Entrez web service from java. I am having difficulty finding documentation or examples on how to control the sort order of results for esearch queries.

Any help will be appreciated.

Thank you,

Peter
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Peter Andrews
Software Engineer
Dartmouth Medical School
Computational Genetics
Rubin 708
(603) 653-6017
Peter.Andrews at dartmouth.edu