How to convert mouse gene symbols to chicken gene symbols?

Question

[david.f.stein]

I have a gene-count matrices from chicken and mouse samples processed via cellranger. I am attempting to analyze them using Seurat's multi-dataset vignette. I need to convert the gene names from one of the samples to their orthologous names in the other sample. There are plenty of examples mapping from human to mouse, but I'm not sure how to do it for mouse and chicken. I was thinking I could go from mouse to human and then from human to chicken, but is there a more straightforward way?

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

That information is already in this mapping file provided by MGI/Jackson Labs.

[david.f.stein]

Is that queryable via some API? I'm trying to convert the names in R

[GenoMax]

You can download the file and parse locally. It is not that large.