adding API key options

[eh58]

Hi,

Thanks for developing the tool!

I recently received error message "NCBI might have blocked the request due to high usage. Try waiting for a while before running Seqwin again." very frequently. Is it possible to add an option flag to allow users to input API key of users' NCBI accounts? FWIK, NCBI relax more on the traffic with having API key along the requests.

Best,

[mxwang66]

Thanks for the question! We'll include that option in a future update. At the moment, you can add the API key as an environment variable:

export NCBI_API_KEY=<PUT_YOUR_API_KEY_HERE>

For more info, check the NCBI dataset docs.