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

[Oliver, Gavin]

I would still assume the end goal should be almost the same.

Over the past few weeks I have found Ensembl genes that don't map to either or where the two don't correspond to one another as they do in either Entrez or the HGNC.  Regardless of approach, I wouldn't expect that this is the expected outcome.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Kahari [mailto:ak at ebi.ac.uk] 
Sent: 02 December 2010 11:47
To: Oliver, Gavin
Cc: ian Longden; Andy Jenkinson; dev
Subject: Re: [ensembl-dev] getting the entrez gene id from an ensembl record

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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