Given Ensembl Ids For Genes Or Mirna,S How To Identify That It Belongs To Human Just By Looking?

Question

[jack]

I have big .csv file. it's contain genes of different species. only the Ensembl ID of genes are there. I just want to extract genes related to human from that file. How can I identify human genes just by looking their Ensembl ID ?

Answer 1

[Neilfws]

Looking at a page of orthologs like this one will give you a clue.

Human gene IDs are ENSG followed by digits.

For other species, a 3-letter abbreviation of the species name is inserted between ENS and G. For example: ENSPTRG for chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes).

[Emily]

There's a help page on this.

[Neilfws]

I knew there would be and that you would tell us! Thanks Emily.