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</font><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri"><var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var>Hello,</font></span></div><div style="font-family: 標楷體, dfkai-sb; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv1056538578"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 標楷體, dfkai-sb; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font face="新細明體">
</font></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">I am new to the Ensembl APIs and got one question
about using Ens. Perl APIs to retrieve the synonyms for genes.</font></span></div><div><font face="新細明體">
</font></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">Through the methods “Bio::EnsEMBL::DBEntry::get_all_synonyms()”
and “Bio::EnsEMBL::DBEntry::display_id()”, I noticed that the synonyms of several
genes could not be successfully retrieved.</font></span></div><div><font face="新細明體">
</font></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">For instance, as I used the keyword “</font></span><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 200%; font-family: "Helvetica", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;'>FLJ25421</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">” to query the Ens. site, the result showed it could be matched
to the gene “ENTHD1”; however, I failed to get the synonym “</font></span><span lang="EN-GB" style='line-height: 200%; font-family: "Helvetica", "sans-serif"; font-size: 14pt;'>FLJ25421</span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">” if I used the two methods described above to dump the
synonyms.</font></span></div><div><font face="新細明體">
</font><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">I was wondering in which table of the human database this
sort of information was deposited, and which APIs I could use in order to
gather all synonyms for genes. So sorry for bothering you with this beginner’s
question and any kind of suggestions and help will be highly appreciated.</font></span></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">Sincerely,</font></span></div><div><font face="新細明體">
</font></div><div class="yiv1056538578MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 200%; font-size: 14pt;"><font face="Calibri">Chester</font></span></div><div><font face="新細明體">
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