Or if you are satisfied with specific fields like the gene name, you could just use one of the annotation packages: library(org.Hs.eg.db) symbols = c( "A1BG", "A2M", "A2MP1") select(org.Hs.eg.db, keys=symbols, cols=c("GENENAME"), keytype="ALIAS") Marc On 07/24/2012 09:57 AM, David Westergaard wrote: > Dear Amit, > > You can retrieve the XML record by making use the Entrez Programming > Utilities. This is descirbed at > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/. Looking through the page, > they give an example of how to retrieve the XML record for a gene: > http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=gene&id= 2&retmode=xml. > You can probably retrieve the XML record using Curl, wget or similar, > and then parse it using an XML parser in your favorite language. > > Best, > David > > 2012/7/24 Amit Kumar Kashyap<amitonbiochem at="" gmail.com="">: >> Hello All , >> >> I have a list of genes (HUGO gene symbols ) or Entrez IDs . I would like to >> get the entrez gene summaries for those genes. >> >> Does any one know if there is R package exits by which I get obtain entrez >> gene summary. >> e.g >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/1 >> >> I would like to extract summary part from this page. >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Cheers ! >> - Amit >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioconductor mailing list >> Bioconductor at r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >> Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor