[Biopython] how to obtain official Gene Symbols for a list of GeneNames

[Sameet Mehta]

Hi,
I was wondering about using the NCBI Gene Database.  I dont know where
to begin. If you could help with some skeleton code, I could take it
from there.

regards
Sameet
On 01/08/2010 04:17 PM, Peter Cock wrote:
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> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Sameet Mehta <msameet at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> Thanks for the reply.  What I have are the old GeneSymbols.  I have
>> already selected the genes of interest based on expression profiles.
>> But I need their current GeneSymbols, so that I can do GO-Term
>> enrichment.
>>     
> Yes, but which GeneSymbols do you have? There are lots of
> different ones (including different species - for human you would
> probably be talking about the HUGO Gene Nomenclature
> Committee assigned symbols).
>
> Assuming your particular gene symbols are covered, then using
> NCBI Entrez and the Gene database might work (try ELink?).
>
> Peter
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