Is there a way to download the entire database?
James A. Sellers
SELLERSJ at cedarnet.cedarville.edu
Sat Mar 25 04:19:09 CET 2000
Joe,
I have located the site for the Downloader I use. It is
http://home.comset.net/povarov/
As I shared before, I am quite satisfied with this freeware. I wish
you the best!!!
James
P.S. For those of you on seqfan, forgive me for sending these two
emails to you all. But I felt others might be interested in this!
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James A. Sellers
Associate Professor, Mathematics
Cedarville College
sellersj at cedarville.edu
http://www.cedarville.edu/dept/sm/jas_www.htm
>>> "James A. Sellers" <sellersj at cedarnet.cedarville.edu> 03/24/00
10:04PM >>>
Joe,
My understanding is that there is no one quick way to download the
entire database. The only option of which I am aware is to download
the 54 files that are currently contained at the www address you
mention at the end of your email.
But there is a relatively quick way to do just that, as long as you
are willing to download a few more files that may not be of interest.
I use a program simply called "Downloader" which, after I open
Microsoft Explorer, will allow me to supply a www address, and
specify
the number of levels deep that I desire, and the program will
download the root page specified, plus all threads from that root
page
up to the level I specify. So I tell it to go to Seis.html and go
one
level down. That picks up all 54 files desired, plus some others
that
are easily discarded if I desire.
I don't remember where I got the software I use; it was freeware I
ran
across a while back when I had your exact same question!!! But I
did
look on altavista tonight and found something called Mass Downloader
at
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/2865/md.htm
This might be exactly what I use, but I can't be sure!!! Also, does
Microsoft have anything like this in the works??
Well, I hope this helps you. I am sorry I can't give you a better
answer. I should say that I have had no trouble with the technique
described above. And I have some grep-like software written "in
house" by one of my colleagues that allows me to perform multiple,
case-sensitive word searches (not just one word as Neil has
available). I have used this ALOT to find the sequences about which
I
am interested. For example, I can look up the "more" sequences in a
certain category of sequences (like "part") in a matter of seconds.
Take care.
James
<<< Joe Crump <joecr at microsoft.com> 3/24 5:52p >>>
Hi,
Is there a way to download the entire database of sequences,
without
having
to download all the .htm files on
(http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/Seis.html)?
Thanks!
- Joe
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