[BioPython] Querying Entrez Gene

Ann Loraine aloraine at gmail.com
Tue Oct 10 12:16:56 UTC 2006


Dear Luca,

Whenever I need data from Entrez gene (usually mRNA-to-Gene id
mappings, in my case) I download one of the tab-delimited from the
NCBI "Gene" ftp site: e.g., gene2go, gene2accession.

see:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA

-Ann

On 10/10/06, Luca Beltrame <luca.beltrame at unimi.it> wrote:
> Hello.
> I'm currently in need of querying the Entrez Gene database using a list of IDs
> I have. After searching in the Biopython documentation, I have found no
> indication of whether that is possible or not.
> Is there a way to query NCBI's Entrez Gene database?
> Thanks in advance.
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Ann Loraine
Assistant Professor
Section on Statistical Genetics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
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