X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fws%2Fdbsources%2FEmblXmlSource.java;h=d185d126b76ab42903610b75df4d66250945d60f;hb=3ab582bfeeab1563bedf60e97994e63e672d2e31;hp=0236d441e5ca38fd16ed17bd492cfbb84131a370;hpb=db93a1adcbe0a4eaaf06e0a70ade0d6c5c1961c3;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
index 0236d44..d185d12 100644
--- a/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
+++ b/src/jalview/ws/dbsources/EmblXmlSource.java
@@ -102,8 +102,13 @@ public abstract class EmblXmlSource extends EbiFileRetrievedProxy
       }
     }
 
+    /*
+     * invalid accession gets a reply with no <entry> elements, text content of
+     * EmbFile reads something like (e.g.) this ungrammatical phrase
+     * Entry: <acc> display type is either not supported or entry is not found.
+     */
     List<SequenceI> peptides = new ArrayList<SequenceI>();
-    if (efile != null)
+    if (efile != null && efile.getEntries() != null)
     {
       for (EmblEntry entry : efile.getEntries())
       {