[BiO BB] How can I retrieve the biggest transposableelementfromNCBI?

[Mike Marchywka]

Did I find the right answer? What are you trying to determine?
If the "largest" is some wierd thing, then you may have to probe
a little with even more ad-hoc criteria.
The validation phase of  an exploratory investigation should be pretty
obvious. If you can parse or just sed/grep the candidate 
answers, you can make a few observations pretty quickly.
664Megs may be a bit much but I've found quite often is is faster
to download the coarse results, browse a little, and then
devise an ad-hoc selection criterion that could be very much
a quirk of the data set than to play with a web interface.

Once you have a few results, it is easy to reformat them and pipe
them elsewhere. IF you are going to do any analysis, you really need
to get around the web stuff anyway.

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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 zheng hui
Sent: WednesdayMay-03-2006 11:08 AM
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Subject: RE: [BiO BB] How can I retrieve the biggest transposableelementfromNCBI?


Thank you for your enthusiastic help.  I have some exprience in perl 
programing but don't know eUtils before.  This tool is a real powerful 
utility and I feel so glad that you introduce it to me.