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

Peter Cock p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 8 11:35:57 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Sameet Mehta <msameet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

How about telling us two or three of your old gene symbols, what they are
from, and the desired new gene symbols?

If you can manage to do this manually via the Entrez website, that would
also be very helpful for doing it automatically via a script.

Peter




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