Exporting gene data with BioMart, demo

Follow these instructions to guide you through BioMart to answer the following query: You have three questions about a set of zebrafish genes: espn, slc24a5, cisd2, thrb

1) What are the NCBI Gene IDs for these genes?

2) Are there associated functions from the GO (gene ontology) project that might help describe their function?

3) What are their cDNA sequences?

Step 1: Click on BioMart in the top header of a www.ensembl.org page to go to: www.ensembl.org/biomart/martview

NOTE: These answers were determined using BioMart Ensembl 107.

NOTE: You can use the Go button to export a file.

What did you learn about the zebrafish genes in this exercise? Could you learn these things from the Ensembl browser? Would it take longer?

For more details on BioMart, have a look at this publications:

Kinsella, R.J. et al Ensembl BioMarts: a hub for data retrieval across taxonomic space. http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3170168