GBK.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright (C) 2017 Greenweaves Software Pty Ltd

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Entrez.email = "simon@greenweaves.nz"
handle = Entrez.esearch(db="nucleotide", term='"Zea mays"[Organism] AND rbcL[Gene]')
record = Entrez.read(handle)
record["Count"]