obtaining sequences

[jde22 at cornell.edu]

I have an idea for Gramene that I think will be very useful for many 
users.  It would be great if there was a way to download specific 
pieces of sequences by submitting a list of BACs 
(or any other sequences) and regions within those sequences.  So, the 
user would specify the BAC and the beginning and end of the sequences of 
interest and the sequences would be returned, perhaps in FASTA format.  This is 
something that Genbank should do, but doesn't, and most of us spend too 
much time cutting out the sequences that we want.  A batch option would 
also be really great.  I typically write scripts and have a few other 
tricks to do this, but for the typical user, it is a real chore. 

Jeremy Edwards