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<h1 class="epydoc">Module NCBI</h1><p class="nomargin-top"><span class="codelink"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-pysrc.html">source&nbsp;code</a></span></p>
<p>Provides code to access NCBI over the WWW.</p>
  <p>The main Entrez web page is available at: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/</p>
  <p>A list of the Entrez utilities is available at: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/utils_index.html</p>
  <p>Documentation for the e-utilies are available at: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/eutils_help.html</p>
  <p>The main Blast web page is available at: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/</p>
  <p>Functions: query        Query Entrez; retrieve results in HTML format.
  pmfetch      Retrieve results using a unique identifier. pmqty        
  Search PubMed. pmneighbor   Return a list of related articles for a 
  PubMed entry.</p>
  <p>efetch       Access the efetch script. _open</p>

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          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-module.html#query" class="summary-sig-name">query</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">cmd</span>,
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        <span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez'</span>,
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      Query Entrez and return a handle to the results, consisting of a web 
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          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-module.html#pmfetch" class="summary-sig-name">pmfetch</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">id</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">report</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">mode</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmfetch.fcgi&quot;</span>)</span><br />
      Query PmFetch and return a handle to the results.</td>
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        <span class="summary-sig-arg">dopt</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmqty.fcgi'</span>)</span><br />
      Query PmQty and return a handle to the results.</td>
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        <span class="summary-sig-arg">display</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmneighbor.fcgi'</span>)</span><br />
      Query PMNeighbor and return a handle to the results.</td>
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        <span class="summary-sig-arg">id</span>,
        <span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="summary-sig-default">...</span>)</span><br />
      Query Entrez and return a handle to the results.</td>
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      elink([, cgi][...]) -&gt; handle</td>
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          <td><span class="summary-sig"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-module.html#_open" class="summary-sig-name" onclick="show_private();">_open</a>(<span class="summary-sig-arg">cgi</span>,
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      Open a handle to Entrez.</td>
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        <a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-module.html#__warningregistry__" class="summary-name">__warningregistry__</a> = <code title="{('Bio.WWW.NCBI is deprecated. The functions in Bio.WWW.NCBI are now a\
vailable from Bio.Entrez; except for the pm* functions which the NCBI \
have retired.',
  &lt;type 'exceptions.DeprecationWarning'&gt;,
  33): 1}"><code class="variable-group">{</code><code class="variable-group">(</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">Bio.WWW.NCBI is deprecated. The funct</code><code class="variable-ellipsis">...</code></code>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">query</span>(<span class="sig-arg">cmd</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez'</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**keywds</span>)</span>
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  <p>Query Entrez and return a handle to the results, consisting of a web 
  page in HTML format. See the online documentation for an explanation of 
  the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=helplinks.chapter.linkshelp</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">pmfetch</span>(<span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">id</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">report</span>=<span class="sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">mode</span>=<span class="sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default">&quot;http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmfetch.fcgi&quot;</span>)</span>
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  <p>Query PmFetch and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmfetch_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">pmqty</span>(<span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">term</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">dopt</span>=<span class="sig-default">None</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmqty.fcgi'</span>)</span>
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  <p>Query PmQty and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmqty_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Returns: handle</dt>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">pmneighbor</span>(<span class="sig-arg">pmid</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">display</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default">'http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmneighbor.fcgi'</span>)</span>
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  <p>Query PMNeighbor and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils/pmneighbor_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Returns: handle</dt>
  </dl>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">epost</span>(<span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">id</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default">...</span>)</span>
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    ><span class="codelink"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-pysrc.html#epost">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
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  <p>Query Entrez and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/epost_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
  <dl class="fields">
    <dt>Returns: handle</dt>
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">efetch</span>(<span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default"><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code></span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**keywds</span>)</span>
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    ><span class="codelink"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-pysrc.html#efetch">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
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  <p>efetch(db[, cgi][...]) -&gt; handle</p>
  <p>Query Entrez and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/efetch_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
  <dl class="fields">
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  <h3 class="epydoc"><span class="sig"><span class="sig-name">esearch</span>(<span class="sig-arg">db</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">term</span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">cgi</span>=<span class="sig-default"><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code></span>,
        <span class="sig-arg">**keywds</span>)</span>
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    ><span class="codelink"><a href="Bio.WWW.NCBI-pysrc.html#esearch">source&nbsp;code</a></span>&nbsp;
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  <p>esearch(db, term[, cgi][...]) -&gt; handle</p>
  <p>Query Entrez and return a handle to the results.  See the online 
  documentation for an explanation of the parameters: 
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/esearch_help.html</p>
  <p>Raises an IOError exception if there's a network error.</p>
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  <p>Open a handle to Entrez.  cgi is the URL for the cgi script to access.
  params is a dictionary with the options to pass to it.  get is a boolean 
  that describes whether a GET should be used.  Does some simple error 
  checking, and will raise an IOError if it encounters one.</p>
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