Summary

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

Package variables

Inherit

Bio::DB::EUtilities

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. 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

   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.

Methods

Methods description

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

Methods code

sub _initialize {

    my ($self, @args ) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::_initialize(@args);
	my ($term) =  $self->_rearrange([qw(TERM)],@args);	
    # set by default
    $self->_eutil($EUTIL);
    $term	        && $self->term($term);

}

sub parse_response {}

General documentation

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