Query Symbols

Query NCBI for gene symbols and with a provided taxon ID. You can determine taxon IDs for your organism of choice with ggetrs ncbi taxons.

Arguments

NameShortLongDescription
Taxon ID-t--taxon-idTaxon ID (human: 9606, mouse: 10090) [default: 9606]
Output-o--outputoptional filepath to write output to [default=stdout]

Command Line Interface

# query NCBI for the symbol AP2S1
ggetrs ncbi query-symbols AP2S1

# query NCBI for the symbol AP2S1 in mice
ggetrs ncbi query-symbols -t 10090 AP2S1