NAME

Bio::DB::EUtilities::egquery - counts for a global query of Entrez databases

SYNOPSIS

my $egquery = Bio::DB::EUtilities->new(
                                 -eutil    => 'egquery',
                                 -term     => 'dihydroorotase'
                                  );

print $egquery->get_response->content;

DESCRIPTION

EGQuery provides Entrez database counts in XML for a single search using NCBI's Global Query. No further parsing of the XML data is processed at this time.

NCBI EGQuery Parameters

The following are a general list of parameters that can be used to take advantage of EGQuery. Up-to-date help for EGQuery is available at this URL (the information below is a summary of the options found there):

http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/egquery_help.html

term

Search term or phrase with or without Boolean operators. This can use search field descriptions and tags (Note: these may be database specific and are better used with ESearch.

FEEDBACK

Mailing Lists

User feedback is an integral part of the evolution of this and other Bioperl modules. Send your comments and suggestions preferably to one of the Bioperl mailing lists. Your participation is much appreciated.

bioperl-l@lists.open-bio.org               - General discussion
http://www.bioperl.org/wiki/Mailing_lists  - About the mailing lists

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to the Bioperl bug tracking system to help us keep track the bugs and their resolution. Bug reports can be submitted via the web.

http://bugzilla.open-bio.org/

AUTHOR

Email cjfields at uiuc dot edu

APPENDIX

The rest of the documentation details each of the object methods. Internal methods are usually preceded with a _

parse_response

Title   : parse_response
Usage   : $db->_parse_response($content)
Function: parse out response for cookie
Returns : empty
Args    : none
Throws  : 'unparseable output exception'