Querying for Fly Gene Descriptions

Question

[bhanratt]

Does anyone know of reliable tool, script, or db for batch querying gene descriptions for the fruit fly?

Answer 1

[natasha.sernova]

See this paper:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20382263

this site as well:

http://flybase.org/

[bhanratt]

Yes I am using flybase. But unless I am blind (possible) I don't see any tools for getting the gene descriptions. Plenty of ID conversion tools, no descriptions.

[natasha.sernova]

What about this post:

How to download Gene annotations.gtf file for Drosophila melanogaster

or this genome project:

http://www.fruitfly.org/

[bhanratt]

The GTF file doesn't have descriptions in it unfortunately. I tried that at first too. No description tables in fruitfly.org either. Thanks anyway!

[Nibua]

You may automate by downloading the result of flybase, since the format is http://flybase.org/reports/<fbgn>.html and then parse it with something like XSLT

Answer 2

[EagleEye]

How about this,

http://rest.kegg.jp/list/dme