Parsing uniprot gene names to get the correspondng entry names

Question

[dovah]

I have a list of several human gene names (in a text file). Is it possible to get the corresponding entry names in UniProt and save them to another text file, using python for example?

[Neilfws]

It seems from your comment below that by "gene names" you mean "Ensembl gene symbols". And by "uniprot entry names" you mean - what? IDs, such as P09874, or names such as PARP1_HUMAN?

Once your terms are defined correctly, we can craft an answer (which, by the way, is "BioMart").

[dovah]

Awesome thank you!
I'm trying the BioMart conversion from Ensembl Gene ID to UniProt/SwissProt ID.

Answer 1

[David Westergaard]

Why not just use the ID mapping service on the front page of http://www.uniprot.org/ ?

Answer 2

[Elisabeth Gasteiger]

ENSG00000203815 cannot be mapped to UniProt by the IDmapping service because this identifier is not in the current EnsEMBL database - it has been deprecated:

http://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Gene/Idhistory?g=ENSG00000203815