Getgenpept and getgenbank with https change in ncbi site

Yesterday (22nd Sept) the getgenpept function in the bioinformatics toolbox stopped working for a few hours whilst the NCBI were testing their new protocol requiring https instead of http. There are a couple more test slots scheduled ( NCBI https tests ) and it will switch over completely from Tuesday (27th Sept).

I'm currently teaching a course which relies on this function for getting the data for much of the coursework. I will obviously download the key data for future assignments before Tuesday and make it available to the students, but I was wondering if anyone could come up with a Matlab based work-around, for my students as I would prefer for them to not be limited to the data I provide.

Answer 1

[Paola Favaretto]

Please contact MathWorks Tech Support. They will be able to provide you with a patch or a suitable workaround.

Answer 2

[Paola Favaretto]

After the transition to https at NCBI (effective November 2016), GETGENBANK, GETGENPEPT and other functions accessing NCBI web servers fail.

You can download a patch for previous releases here .