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tooluniverse-sequence-retrieval

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Fetch biological sequences from public databases.

Education & Research#bioinformatics#RefSeq#sequence retrieval#GenBank#ENA#FASTA#NCBI
Authormims-harvard
Version1.0.0
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What problem does it solve?

Biologists and bioinformaticians waste time and risk errors when manually searching multiple databases to acquire nucleotide and protein sequences for analysis, annotation, and reporting.

Core Features & Use Cases

  • Unified search across NCBI Nucleotide and ENA GenBank entries for DNA, RNA, and protein sequences.
  • Gene/organism disambiguation to resolve exact sequences for a given gene and species.
  • Cross-database reporting & downloads with metadata, cross-references, and downloadable formats (FASTA, GenBank).
  • Use Case: Retrieve the Homo sapiens BRCA1 mRNA sequence and compare it to a bacterial gene for comparative genomics.

Quick Start

Example: Use the tool to search for Escherichia coli K-12 complete genome, fetch top accessions, and download the FASTA sequence for downstream analysis.

Dependency Matrix

Required Modules

None required

Components

Standard package

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Download link: https://github.com/mims-harvard/ToolUniverse/archive/main.zip#tooluniverse-sequence-retrieval

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