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NCBI API for finding accession numbers?

Hi all,

Is there an API somewhere for fetching lists of accession numbers from NCBI that match some search criteria?

Context: I'd like to use their SRA Toolkit's 'prefetch' functionality (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK47540/#SRA_Download_Guid_B.The_SRA_Toolkit) to grab a bunch of sra files as part of a larger automated pipeline, but I don't want to have to cut and paste accession numbers one by one from a web-based search.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by mills.wj • mills.wj

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You mean like Entrez Direct or the less user friendly eUtils?

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written by 5heikki 5heikki

Great, I'll look into those - thanks for the pointer!

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written by mills.wj • mills.wj

These are not APIs. It seems that there isn't anything that looks like API unfortunately.

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written by chefarov chefarov

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