[Bioperl-l] Getting Genomic Position of Genes using BioPerl

[Sean Davis]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Gundala Viswanath <gundalav at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Is there a way we can get the genomic position
> of a gene from any species, using BioPerl?
>
> For example given such genes names, we want to
> know the chromosomes, strand, start_pos, end_pos:
>
> C53H9.2 (C. Elegans)
> CBG22213 (C Brigs)
> cr01.sctg20.wum.79 (C. Reria)
> ENSG00000064655 (H. Sapiens)
> YGL099W (S. Cerevisieae)
>
> I am thinking if there already exist
> any module to do such task.

You might want to look at the Ensembl perl api (and perhaps the mart
api, also).

Sean