Changes for version 1.74 - 2016-09-25

  • NCBI related change from HTTP to HTTPS
  • Add preliminary 'idtype' attribute for some eutils, which will be needed for upcoming NCBI changes with migration of GI to Accession.Version
  • Remove usage of 'given' and 'when' which have been downgraded to experimental on perl 5.18.
  • Fixed released tarball so it installs its programs `bp_einfo` and `bp_genbank_ref_extractor`

Documentation

Query einfo to find all available databases or information about a specific database (field information or links to other NCBI databases).
Retrieves all related sequences for a list of searches on Entrez gene

Modules

Webagent which interacts with and retrieves data from NCBI's eUtils.
NCBI eutil XML parsers.
EUtil data object interface.
Manipulation of NCBI eutil-based parameters for remote database requests.
Lightweight implementation of HistoryI interface (not bound to filehandles, extraneous methods, etc).
Simple extension of EUtilDataI interface class for classes which hold NCBI server history data.
Interface class for storing einfo data.
Class for storing einfo field data.
Class for storing einfo link data.
General API for accessing data retrieved from elink queries.
Class for EUtils LinkSets.
Class for EUtils UrlLinks.
Parse and collect esearch, epost, espell, egquery information.
Container class for egquery data.
Class for handling data output (XML) from esummary.
Data object for document summary data from esummary.
Simple layered object for DocSum item data.
Abtract interface methods for accessing Item information from any Item-containing class. This pertains to either DocSums or to Items themselves (which can be layered).