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Get whole gene number in Kegg

Hi,

How can we list\ get all gene number in KEGG using KEGG REST , i tried :

genes = urlread('http://rest.kegg.jp/list/genes'); genes = urlread('http://rest.kegg.jp/link/genes');

but does not work ??

please any suggestion

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One way is to get list of organisms:

http://rest.kegg.jp/list/organism

and then list their genes one by one, e.g.:

http://rest.kegg.jp/list/T01001

Although this approach probably still misses some genes like those in viruses and metagenomes..

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