Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bionet!UH.EDU!Davison From: Davison@UH.EDU (Dan Davison) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Suggestion for keywords in genbank Message-ID: <9102010549.AA09803@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 1 Feb 91 05:49:50 GMT References: Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Lines: 30 Dave K. notes: > The potential for horrendous amounts of output if an > unfortunate choice of words is made is very high. Yes, and my solution is... > Although a warning mechanism, e.g., sending back the number of > entries, could be built into e-mail, and their > Perhaps a compromise for e-mail keyword searches would be just > to return the DEFINITION lines and accession numbers. The results can still get pretty big, so I have a "top 100" (actually " ...| head -100 | ...") in the script. The major problem is that I can't program to save myself, so awk chokes on several lines in GenBank. Until I get the time to do this, the whole thing's on hold. dan -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself.