Get DNA sequence from NCBI database, having a bunch of information about the entry

Question

[orelsmail]

Hello everybody. I am doing a project for college, and I am looking for a database to extract a DNA sequence of a certain species. The information I have: tax_id Org_name GeneID CurrentID Status Symbol Aliases description other_designations map_location chromosome genomic_nucleotide_accession.version start_position_on_the_genomic_accession end_position_on_the_genomic_accession orientation exon_count OMIM

I looked through the FTP servers of the NCBI, and I couldn't find any way to recognize the species through the information I have, although I am pretty certain it's more than enough to do so.

Thanks ahead.

[lieven.sterck]

in stead of looking in the ftp location, have you tried querying it through the NCBI website query form? Using the advanced query option you can easily formulate very specific queries.

[microfuge]

Also inputting the tax_id in the NCBI taxonomy database would give the species information.

[finswimmer]

Hello orelsmail,

which sequence do you want to fetch? Reference Genome of the species? Sequence of the gene? Sequence of a certain transcript?

fin swimmer