[Biopython] How to get sequences upstream of TSS of genes?

[Peng Yu]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
<dalloliogm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Steve Lianoglou
> <mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Giovanni Marco Dall'Olio
>>> <dalloliogm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have gene names (for example, Krt83) what geneIDs shall I choose?
>>
>> Since your on ensembl's web site, I'd imagine ensembl gene id's might be a
>> good bet, no? :-)
>
> exactly, but if you look at the form more carefully you will see that
> there is a menu from which you can choose the type of geneId, for
> example: ensembl, kegg, ncbi, etc...
>
> note: I didn't send you the ufficial biomart's link. The right one is:
> - http://www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview

My question was how to figure what type of geneID it was for 'Krt83'?
I tried 'Ensembl Gene ID(s)' in the menu and put 'Krt83' in the box
below it. But I get an empty mart_export.txt file.