[Bioperl-l] Mapping Entrez Gene ID to Ensembl Gene ID

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Mon May 3 23:14:58 UTC 2010


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Ram Podicheti <mnrusimh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to obtain the Ensembl Gene ID from an Entrez Gene ID? In
> other words, I am hoping to get 'ENSMUSG00000029372' as the output when
> I supply 57349.
>

Check out the Biomart interface to Ensembl.  You can supply any type of ID
as a filter and get back gene information, including the ID, that map to
that ID.  I believe there is a perl interface to biomart, but I haven't used
it to comment directly.  There is also an R/Bioconductor interface.

Sean



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