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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hi Nico,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I remember that not long time ago you talked about the eutils :</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"</FONT><FONT FACE="Times New Roman">It makes it easier to construct the elink URL directly in code than to go through a whole array of member functions to make it work</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">". In this point I am agree with you.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Actually I found a Bug with a at least a kind of url when you try to get a part of a genomic region:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">if you refresh the following link you will see that sometimes you get the complement sequence and vice versa :</FONT>
<BR><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"><A HREF="http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=nucleotide&id=51472791&rettype=fasta&seq_start=5594723&seq_stop=5628008&strand=1">http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=nucleotide&id=51472791&rettype=fasta&seq_start=5594723&seq_stop=5628008&strand=1</A></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Cheers !</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fred </FONT>
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