Make tidy gene tables with MyGene.info and Tabulator

Let’s use the MyGene.info API with the Tabulator JavaScript library by Oli Folkerd to create a simple web page for making tidy tables with information about genes. See how it works below, download the code, and try it yourself.

🐎 Example

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Here is an animation that shows what this code can do:

⚡ Try it

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Try pasting a list of gene ids at quickgene.net

After you click “Search”, we use the MyGene.info service or Ensembl API to guess the Entrez IDs or Ensembl IDs that match your query.

💾 Download the code

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Download the code and try it out yourself:

• genes.html

To run it, start a server. Go to your ~/Downloads folder and run:

cd ~/Downloads
python3 -m http.server

Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ...

Then open your web browser and go to http://localhost:8000/variants.html