This project contains two sets of code:

Firstly, parser for the accession format described here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Sequin/acc.html called scrape_accession_rules.py and the RefSeq sections described in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21091/table/ch18.T.refseq_accession_numbers_and_mole/?report=objectonly and the SRA accessions described in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56913/#search.what_do_the_different_sra_accessi. This can be run as

scrape_accession_rules.py accession_rules.json

to scrape the rules at that website and save them in JSON format. The file generated by this parser is used in the second script, parse_accession.py which can be used as a Python module but also as a command line tool e.g. parse_accession.py accession_rules.json AE014297.

The parse_accession.py script aims to work with all Python versions. The scrape_accession_rules.py script requires at least Python 3.6 and the modules specified in conda_requirements.txt.

This code is licensed under the BSD 3 clause license. Please feel free to use and modify the code, but it is released without warranty. See the .py files for details.