/get-uniprot

A Simple Python CLI that Grabs a Querie's Protein Sequence using the Uniprot API.

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Get-Uniprot: A Simple Python CLI for Grabbing Protein Sequences. 🧬

Prerequisites:

  • Python >=3.6

Quickstart:

pip install get-uniprot

Usage:

Usage: uniprot [OPTIONS]

Options:
  -p, --protein TEXT   Name of protein.
  -g, --gene TEXT      Name of gene.
  -o, --organism TEXT  Name of organism.
  -f, --file           Output sequence to .fasta file.
  --help               Show this message and exit.

e.g.

uniprot -p eEF1A -o 'S. cerevisiae' > eEF1A.fasta

Output:

Command will output sequence to the shell and create a .fasta file in the current directory if -f supplied.
Otherwise can redirect to file (see example.)
Recommended: Use -f option if in Windows PowerShell, redirects will create abhorrently formatted .fasta sequences.