longest human sequences

[Jonathan Epstein]

Sorry, I forgot that you wanted human sequences.  Try:
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=n&form=6&term=350000:999999[SLEN]+AND+homo+sapiens[ORGN]&dopt=u

- Jonathan


Jonathan Epstein wrote:
> 
> Hi, Bill,
> 
> You can try something like:
> 
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=n&form=6&term=520000:999999[SLEN]&dopt=u
> 
> This shows 11 sequences with length between 520000 and 999999.  Change
> to dopt=f to get them in FASTA format
> 
> To get a better handle on the lengths of sequences available, you can go
> to the main Entrez nucleotide page:
>   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/nucleotide.html
> and select Search Field:Sequence Length and Mode:List Terms, and enter a
> sequence length of around 520000.  Then scroll through the available
> lengths and play with the ones you like.
> 
> HTH ... regards,
> 
> - Jonathan
> 
> William R. Pearson wrote:
> >
> > I would like to know the names/lengths of the 10 longest contiguous
> > human sequences in Genbank/EMBL (the 10 longest contiguous human
> > sequences known, even if they are not contiguous in Genbank/EMBL).
> >
> > Any information about listing determining long sequences will be
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Bill Pearson