[BioC] entrez gene summary

[Marc Carlson]

Or if you are satisfied with specific fields like the gene name, you 
could just use one of the annotation packages:

library(org.Hs.eg.db)
symbols = c( "A1BG",  "A2M",   "A2MP1")
select(org.Hs.eg.db, keys=symbols, cols=c("GENENAME"), keytype="ALIAS")


   Marc


On 07/24/2012 09:57 AM, David Westergaard wrote:
> 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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