I am working on Arabidopsis thaliana omics project. How can I get short and proper gene description for each AGI (Gene IDs)  numbers?
Downloaded database from Tair10  has pretty lengthy names which are difficult to work with (plotting , summarizing in downs-stream works)

e.g. 

    AT1G01050		Soluble inorganic pyrophosphatase 1 OS=Arabidopsis thaliana (sp|q93v56|ipyr1_arath : 419.0)

    AT1G01800	Enzyme classification.EC_1 oxidoreductases.EC_1.1 oxidoreductase acting on CH-OH group of donor(50.1.1 : 434.7) & (+)-neomenthol dehydrogenase OS=Arabidopsis thaliana (sp|q9m2e2|sdr1_arath : 357.0) (original description: none)


From where I can get  / how to **`modify the names short and sweet`**?

- Go to ensembl's [BioMart][1]
- Choose `Dataset`: `Ensembl Plant Genes` and `Arabidopsis thaliana genes`
- Choose `Filters`->`Genes` -> `Input external references ID list` -> `Gene Stable ID(s)` and paste your IDs into the textfield
- Choose `Attributes`->`Gene` and select `Gene Stable ID` and ` Gene name`
- Click `Result` and download in the format you like

You can extract the IDs from the file example above with a simple `cut -f1 input_file > gene_ids.txt`.

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  [1]: http://plants.ensembl.org/biomart/martview