Data access through python

Question

[Bala Hatun]

How to extract data of refGene Database from UCSC browser using python or perl?

[desouzareis.r]

You could download the data via the ftp page

https://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg38/database/refGene.txt.gz https://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/hg19/database/refGene.txt.gz

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

BioEntrez package in biopython : https://biopython.org/docs/1.75/api/Bio.Entrez.html
Examples of Perl code: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25498/

You could simply use EntrezDirect, the command line program.