Programmatic JS ways to get interesting information about genes by symbol or accession ID

Question

[Alex Reynolds]

My question is: are there open-source repos or APIs for querying — via Javascript — a symbol name or identifier and getting back interesting metadata about that gene. This could include a fun summary about the gene, what tissues it is regulated in, what TFs are associated, GO terms, etc. etc. etc.

I know about manually searching GeneCards for a symbol name, and there are some other Python- and R-based approaches for translating one gene symbol or accession identifiers to others. That's not really quite what I'm after, however, if my question makes sense in that way. Probably not looking to scrape requests, also, but would prefer a real service I can point an app to.

Thanks for pointers, if any!

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

MyGene.info ? https://docs.mygene.info/en/latest/index.html

[Alex Reynolds]

Thanks, it's a great service but I'm probably looking for something more like what GeneCards provides, than translating accession ids.