"I updated LWP::Protocol::https, IO::Socket::SSL, Net::SSLeay, OpenSSL and Bio modules from cpan (https://www.cpan.org/) inside the lib folder of Perl."

To be specific, are you doing this manually, as in manually downloading modules from cpan and copying the files? If so this can be a bit of a footgun, consider using cpanm/cpan. Perl 5.10 is from 2007, see Strawberry Perl for a sane distribution for windows.

Update: from the website NCBI Website Maintenance — Beginning July 25th: "We anticipate this planned outage will last 24 hours or more. During this time, users may experience interrupted access or degraded performance across a range of NLM resources, including databases, search tools, submission systems, and programmatic services."

In reply to Re: How can I retrieve a DNA sequence from online database using perl code? by marto
in thread How can I retrieve a DNA sequence from online database using perl code? by supriyoch_2008

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