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Table 1 PyCellBase resource-specific clients and available data. The different clients that are currently implemented for each biological data type are shown along with the main data that can be obtained from each one of them

From: PyCellBase, an efficient python package for easy retrieval of biological data from heterogeneous sources

Client

Data

Gene

Clinical data, protein-protein interactions, biotype, TFBSs, expression, transcripts, protein, variants

Transcript

Sequence, function prediction, XREFs, biotype, genes, proteins, exons

Protein

Amino acid sequence, substitution scores, organism, genes, protein features, evidence, bibliography

Variation

Variants, biological impact, consequence types

Xref

Associated IDs from multiple databases (ENSEMBL, UCSC, UniProt, RefSeq, GO, Reactome, PDB, OMIM, RNAcentral, miRBase...)

Genomic region

Sequence, clinical variants, conservation scores, regulatory elements, repeat sequences, genes, transcripts, variants

Variant

Consequence types, genes, transcripts, proteins, population frequencies, HGVS, clinical significance, functional score

Genome sequence

Cytobands

Clinical

ClinVar, COSMIC, inheritance, evidence, pathogenicity, diseases

TFBS

Histones, open chromatin, polymerases, transcription factors