GO terms from list of genes

Question

[jackielighten]

Hi,

Can anyone recommend an approach to translate a gene list compiled from the literature in to GO terms

e.g.

cers4b gtpbp4 tpm4b cul1a

Could this not be done with ensemble? I am struggling to find a straightforward approach.

Many thanks in advance

J

Answer 1

[Jean-Karim Heriche]

Try the Ensembl BioMart for a non-programmatic way. Otherwise, you can use various modules/packages in your favorite programming language. For example, you can use the Ensembl perl API to retrieve this info directly from the Ensembl database or, in R, you can use the getGOInfo() function from the GOSim bioconductor package.
Note that you may need to convert your identifiers/names to suitable gene IDs.