Genes

Guides to retrieving gene sequence and metadata

Retrieve gene metadata by NCBI Gene ID, gene symbol or RefSeq accession.

Download an NCBI Datasets Gene Data Package, including FASTA sequences and metadata

Download a gene ortholog dataset for a gene using the datasets command-line tool.

Each ortholog gene may have many transcripts. Here we describe how you can filter the resulting metadata to only the longest transcript.

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