genescraper

A Flask web application that lets you scroll through GeneCard's gene summaries, granted you provide a list of genes.


Keywords
GeneCard, Webscraping, Gene, Summary
License
Other
Install
pip install genescraper==0.1.2

Documentation

Gene Card Scroller

A Flask web application (made with Bootstrap) that lets you scroll through GeneCard's gene summaries, granted you provide a list of genes.

Installation

Install genescraper with pip

pip install git+https://github.com/branco-heuts/genescraper

Usage

Make sure you provide a comma separated file (.csv), without headers or row-names. You can find an example file here.

Run the command in the terminal:

python genescraper.py -c gene_list.csv

And click: http://127.0.0.1:5000 or http://10.252.0.13:5000

Warning: a large list of genes is not recommended, the webscraping can be slow.

When your done, close the server using CTRL+C.