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NCBI-Hackathons / EDirectCookbook

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Software Version #41

Open linsalrob opened 5 years ago

linsalrob commented 5 years ago

There is a suggestion to "PLEASE UPDATE TO THE LATEST VERSION of E-Direct when possible to avoid a bug in older versions associated with the new NCBI API rate limit policy and API keys".

How does one find the current version of the edirect tools that is installed, and the newest version of the tools available online?

vkkodali commented 5 years ago

A command like esearch -help | head should tell you which version you are currently running. From there, check the NCBI FTP site to find out what the latest version is and follow the installation instructions to install the latest version over the older one.