Querying NCBI Entrez using gene names

Question

[mahmud.iqbal]

I am a student working on a research project and this is my first post, so please excuse if I haven't adhered to the forum rules. So I have a list of gene names, and I want to find the gene description as well as gene id and output it using python. I know it is possible to find the fasta using python and gene id, however is it possible to find geneid and description using gene names? If so, how do I reference the gene name in my code?

Thank you,
Mahmud

Answer 1

[reza.jabal]

You can easily do it by BIOMART python package. See here:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/biomart/0.4.0