[BioPython] biopython sequence retreive from locus_tag

Peter biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk
Thu May 29 21:53:58 UTC 2008


> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to find a way to retreive the sequences from NCBI
> starting from the locus_tag information.
> I have no accession number.

Hello Giacomo,

There is probably more than one solution.  My first idea is to try and
use the Entrez utilities.  Have you tried searching Entrez for your
locus tag via this web page?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/

If this work, then I would try using the Bio.Entrez module in
Biopython, and request the desired records in FASTA or GenBank format
according to your needs.

Peter



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