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Convert mouse amino acid location to genomic location

I have amino acid positions for a number of mouse mutations, for example DNMT3a R878H. Is there a way to convert this to a genome coordinate such aschr12:12345?

The Ensembl Rest API seems to be capable of such a task, and when I make a call for a human change it works as shown here:

https://rest.ensembl.org/map/translation/ENSP00000288602/100..300?content-type=application/json

But when trying to change the gene to mouse the call no longer works.

genome gene

Thanks Pierre, I did have a look at this but it is unclear how to perform such an analysis for mouse. It looks like the Ensembl API might be able to do it as illustrated here, but how to switch from human to mouse is not clear to me.

Give VEP a shot

"ENSMUSP00000020991" is actually protein id of "ENSMUSG00000020661".

Indeed. That's how I built the working URL from the "broken" URL

This works great! But how did you find the protein id instead of the gene id?

  1. Google the gene id to get to the ENSG entry
  2. Expand the transcript table and ensure the "Translation ID" column is displayed
  3. Everything is now available in a single view:

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