[ensembl-dev] getting the entrez gene id from an ensembl record

[Andreas Kahari]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 10:22:35AM -0000, Oliver, Gavin wrote:
> Is it possible to have Entrez genes at a couple of levels?
> 
> i.e. a top-level Entrez ID linked via the gene and the others below this at the transcript or translation stage?
> 
> Most end users expect a single accurate Entrez gene ID that will tie to a single HGNC ID.  They don't want to be aware of the actual complexity of things.  It would be good to be able to cater for this somehow.
> 

Just to comment on the last part of this:  It is not our job to provide
a mapping between HGNC and EntrezGene.  We provide mappings from Ensembl
objects to HGNC, and to EntrezGene.  That's different.

Andreas

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