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Can anyone suggest me the tool to convert the gene ids to gene names?

After performing the Ht-seq count, i got following gene ids,

VIT_04s0023g03690   51  53  48  52
VIT_04s0023g03700   28  19  25  16
VIT_04s0023g03710   14  12  11  14
VIT_04s0023g03720   2   1   4   3
VIT_04s0023g03730   0   0   0   0
VIT_04s0023g03740   2   0   0   0
VIT_04s0023g03750   17  20  25  23

I want to convert these gene ids to gene names, can anyone suggest some software or command in linux for their conversion

Thank you

gene sequence alignment

I just had a look at the Ensembl annotation files for that species and it seems these kind of gene names are the only ones available. If you have a different source with more "intuitive" names feel free to post them (that would actually be the minimal effort you should invest) so we can have a look on how to convert your gene names.

As I said Emsembl does not seem to have any "human readable" gene names:

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From that search, I only see one gene name in "Gene description" field in Ensembl BioMart.

Checking Phytozome data for Vitis v. seems the annotation for the species is bad.

My suggestion will be to try to annotate the list of genes using Blast2Go or similar tools.

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The annotation for this species [Vitis vinifera; common grape] does not, indeed, seem great; however, there is information there via biomaRt:

library('biomaRt')

mart <- useMart(
  biomart = 'plants_mart',
  dataset = 'vvinifera_eg_gene',
  host = 'plants.ensembl.org')

features <- getBM(
  attributes = c('ensembl_gene_id',
    'external_gene_name',
    'external_gene_source',
    'external_transcript_name',
    'external_synonym',
    'entrezgene_id',
    'description',
    'chromosome_name',
    'start_position',
    'end_position'),
  mart = mart)

head(features, 12)

     ensembl_gene_id external_gene_name external_gene_source
1  VIT_14s0108g01640                                        
2  VIT_14s0108g01640                                        
3  VIT_00s0246g00170                                        
4  VIT_08s0056g00590                                        
5  VIT_12s0028g01880               ROMT  UniProtKB Gene Name
6  VIT_12s0028g01880               ROMT  UniProtKB Gene Name
7  VIT_16s0100g01030                                        
8  VIT_18s0076g00250                                        
9  VIT_18s0001g15410                                        
10 VIT_08s0007g07690                                        
11 VIT_08s0007g07690                                        
12 VIT_04s0044g00580                                                                             
   external_transcript_name external_synonym entrezgene_id
1                     NDHB2             ndh2       4025030
2                     NDHB2             ndh2       4025014
3                      CCSA             ycf5       4025038
4                      CEMA            ycf10       4025049
5                      ROMT           VvROMT     100233030
6                      ROMT           VvROMT     100217470
7                       STS           PSV368     100217471
8                     SUC27            SUC27     100232846
9                   GV-ADH1          GV-ADH1     100232853
10                     PGIP             PGIG     100232865
11                     PGIP             pgip     100232865
12                     ACT1             act2     100232866
                                                                                                                     description
1                                                                                                                               
2                                                                                                                               
3  Cytochrome c biogenesis protein CcsA [Source:Projected from Arabidopsis thaliana (ATCG01040) UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot;Acc:P56770]
4                                                                                                                               
5                                              Trans-resveratrol di-O-methyltransferase [Source:UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot;Acc:B6VJS4]
6                                              Trans-resveratrol di-O-methyltransferase [Source:UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot;Acc:B6VJS4]
7                                                                   Stilbene synthase 3 [Source:UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot;Acc:P51071]
8                                                              Putative sucrose transporter [Source:UniProtKB/TrEMBL;Acc:Q4JLW1]
9                                                                                                                               
10                                                                                                                              
11                                                                                                                              
12                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
   chromosome_name start_position end_position
1               14       30191954     30192507
2               14       30191954     30192507
3               Un       17197906     17199144
4                8         884462       886252
5               12        2540839      2542441
6               12        2540839      2542441
7               16       16507726     16509479
8               18       15923548     15925964
9               18       13539135     13541625
10               8       21152228     21153570
11               8       21152228     21153570
12               4       21427866     21431057

Kevin

This is working great. Thank you very much

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