bio2bel-hgnc 0.2.2

A package for converting HGNC to BEL

This package creates:

• HGNC BEL namespace

• HGNC gene families BEL namespace,

• HGNC gene family membership BEL Script

• orthology BEL script

Installation

bio2bel_hgnc can be installed easily from PyPI with the following code in your favorite terminal:

$ python3 -m pip install bio2bel_hgnc

or from the latest code on GitHub with:

$ python3 -m pip install git+https://github.com/bio2bel/hgnc.git@master

Setup

HGNC can be downloaded and populated from either the Python REPL or the automatically installed command line utility.

Python REPL

>>> import bio2bel_hgnc
>>> hgnc_manager = bio2bel_hgnc.Manager()
>>> hgnc_manager.populate()

Command Line Utility

bio2bel_hgnc populate

Citations

• Gray KA, et al. genenames.org: the HGNC resources in 2015. Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Jan;43(Database issue):D1079-85

Acknowledgements

• This package heavily relies on Andrej Konotopez’s package PyHGNC