[Jalview-discuss] Fetching sequences, URLs, Web services etc.

[Brian Smith]

Hi,

As a 1.x user I really like the look of 2.3 - will be a great tool.

I am having some troubles with certain features (using webstarted 2.3 on 
WinXP):

Fetch sequences doesn't seem to work for me.  Selecting Uniprot or PDB and 
entering known accession numbers/ids just gives me an "Error 
retrieving..." dialogue each time.  I think I have my proxy setting 
correct (bare hostname & port and the web services are working now). 
Does this service depend on particular servers? Is there a way to get more 
informative debug info?

Add Sequence -> URL option.  Is there a way to read sequences from SRS or 
NCBI via this route in a format that is recognised, or is it intended more 
for accessing e.g. a ready formatted file on a local server?  NCBI URLs 
complain about the format while EBI SRS URLs load garbage composed of the 
characters in the URL itself which seems fair enough if you're not parsing 
the html stuff.

Web Services: was the server really down for a while this afternoon? 
I was getting errors on submission but seems to be working now.

Thanks,
 	Brian Smith

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