Python tool to provide a simple interface to NCBI's GenBank database.
The code is written for Python 2.7.
PyGenBank is built on top of Biopython and can be used to perform a search on GenBank and download records.
To install the module and the command line tools, type:
sudo pip install git+https://github.com/matthieu-bruneaux/pygenbank
You can test if the installation worked with:
pygenbank-search -h pygenbank-extract-CDS -h
and from Python:
import genbank as gb dir(gb)
To remove the module and the command line tools, type:
sudo pip uninstall pygenbank
Documentation for the project is available on Read the Docs.