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Retrieve the autocomplete list from another site (NCBI)

As you can see in the blast's page when you try to write something in the organism textbox e.g 'Zea' a drop down list with many suggestions, appears.

As i can understand this info is stored somewhere in the server of NCBI, like in a json file. So i would like to know if its possible with a technique to retrieve those data and use it in another textbox (with the same idea - drop down list) for a web program im working on.

Thank you.

Solution

  • There is a autocomplete service on this page. You can call it with the following URl. http://blast.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/portal/utils/autocomp.fcgi?dict=taxids_sg&q=zea