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How to retrieve large among of fasta file from NCBI by GIDs

I just got a list of GIDs and want to retrieve fasta files from NCBI based on the GIDs, I tried to use Batch Entrez to retrieve, but a error message pop up saying "cannot find records for the serval Ids" and then listed all the GIDs that in my uploaded file, I just confused why I can't retrieve fasta file successfully. Or are there any better way to retrieve large among of fasta files from NCBI base on GID?

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updated by h.mon h.mon • written by yhuang690 • yhuang690

Post a few ID's that don't work.

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written by GenoMax GenoMax

The following records can't be retrieved: Id=218693477: Id=218693478: Id=218693479: Id=218693480: Id=218693482: Id=218693483: Id=218693484: Id=218693485:

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Looks like most of those ID's are not currently alive. Can you share where these ID's came from?

Edit: As I suspected these are retired records. You can see one of them here, 218693483 and another one 22218693484 .

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