Current pipeline, as described in wiki example, uses reference genome+cdna FASTA files and gene feature files (GTF) from Ensembl. None of these inputs contain human-understandable gene descriptions.
Current manual process is
go to ensembl, select organism, click biomart
in biomart, click attributes, check the boxes for Ensembl Gene ID, Description, Associated Gene Name
download and rename file and plonk in the ref-genome directory
Automated process might involve doing the same via web API or by mirroring their raw xml and querying locally.
Current pipeline, as described in wiki example, uses reference genome+cdna FASTA files and gene feature files (GTF) from Ensembl. None of these inputs contain human-understandable gene descriptions.
Current manual process is
Automated process might involve doing the same via web API or by mirroring their raw xml and querying locally.