Connecting to Ensembl via biopython

Question

I just joined the work of python and biopython and wanted to connect Ensebml and get some sequences and other data like TSS, a list of some genes, etc. But my problem is that I cannot find any method or module in biopython to do this. I know this is a very normal procedure in perl using the Ensembl API. I am very grateful if someone will tell me or call me a document to see how this is done in biopitone. thanks

Answer 1

BioStar has a similar question and several answers .

Answer 2

You need to use and install the pyCogent module. Then the specific bit to do with Ensembl is here: http://pycogent.org/examples/query_ensembl.html

Depending on what you want to do, you may prefer to use the REST API from Ensembl, which is located here: http://beta.rest.ensembl.org