Python code for extracting values from an Excel database?

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5.6 years ago

d.awwad19 • 0

Hello..

I have a big database in an Excel format (around 50,000 records) of sequence accession codes and corresponding numerical values, and I need a piece of python code for extracting the highest 30 numerical values.. Can someone help me with that please? (I have very very beginner level at Python)..

Thanks in advance!

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ADD COMMENT • link updated 5.6 years ago by curious ▴ 810 • written 5.6 years ago by d.awwad19 • 0

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Look at pandas which is very good at working with excel sheets as a starting point:

https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_excel.html

EDIT: Sorry I meant this to be a reply I don't know how to delete as answer :/

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago by curious ▴ 810

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Thanks, I will definitely check it out..

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago by d.awwad19 • 0

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If you have an excel file, why don't you just use the function of excel to sort columns?

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago by finswimmer 16k

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Well, I wanted to write a code that would extract the accession codes corresponding to the highest values and download the sequences in FASTA format directly (by linking it to the Gencode database)..

ADD REPLY • link 5.6 years ago by d.awwad19 • 0

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