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

[Peter Cock]

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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