[BioC] entrez gene summary

[David Westergaard]

Dear Amit,

You can retrieve the XML record by making use the Entrez Programming
Utilities. This is descirbed at
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/. Looking through the page,
they give an example of how to retrieve the XML record for a gene:
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=gene&id=2&retmode=xml.
You can probably retrieve the XML record using Curl, wget or similar,
and then parse it using an XML parser in your favorite language.

Best,
David

2012/7/24 Amit Kumar Kashyap <amitonbiochem at gmail.com>:
> Hello All ,
>
> I have a list of genes (HUGO gene symbols ) or Entrez IDs . I would like to
> get the entrez gene summaries for those genes.
>
> Does any one know if there is R package exits by which I get obtain entrez
> gene summary.
> e.g
> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1
>
> I would like to extract summary part from this page.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheers !
>  - Amit
>
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