/emacs-gene-tools

An interactive UI to query gene info in a given organism.

Primary LanguageEmacs Lisp

Gene tools in Emacs

What’s gene-tools?

An interactive UI to query info of a gene in a given species.

Info comes from:

  • Curated local data within this repo;
  • External databases via API.

Supported species and actions

  • Saccharomyces cerevisiae
    • Deletion collection primers
    • GFP collection primers
    • Query SGD database (requires sgd-lookup.el)

Usage

M-x gene-tools: choose organism, and then choose info to query, and then select gene name.

Installation

  1. Clone or download this repository (path of folder is <path-to-gene-tools> below).
  2. In your .emacs file (or .doom.d/config.el if you are using Doom Emacs), add the following lines: 
    (add-to-list 'load-path "<path-to-gene-tools>")
(require 'gene-tools)

Releases

  • Version 0.1.0: Functional for Saccaromyces cerevisiae.

Known issues

  • The package loads relevant local data lazily, which may take a while if the local data file is large.