Hello again,

I was curious if anyone had a nice way of finding the gene synonyms for a list of genes? My genes are currently listed as gene symbols, however, any tool or method to fetch synonyms from any type of ID would be a step in the right direction. Conversions in the reverse direction would also be helpful (from any known synonym to gene symbol).

As an example: If I came across IL8 (a synonym), I would convert it to CXCL8 (the gene symbol), or vice-versa. I know in ENSEMBL (and many other tools) you can search for genes using many synonymous names, so there must be a table somewhere to easily covert between the two, but I have not been able to locate it.

Currently, I am using a massive table from UniProt and using 'awk' to search for the genes I need. This is both cumbersome and inefficient, which is why I wanted to reach out to you all!

Thanks!
using mysql / ucsc

    ~$ mysql --user=genome --host=genome-mysql.soe.ucsc.edu -A -P 3306 -D hg38 -e 'select distinct K2.alias from kgAlias as K1, kgAlias as K2 where K1.alias="IL8" and K1.kgID=K2.kgID;'
    +-------------------+
    | alias             |
    +-------------------+
    | B2R4L8            |
    | CXCL8             |
    | ENST00000307407.7 |
    | IL8               |
    | IL8_HUMAN         |
    | NM_000584         |
    | P10145            |
    | Q6FGF6            |
    | Q6LAE6            |
    | Q96RG6            |
    | Q9C077            |
    | Q9UCE1            |
    | Q9UCR8            |
    | Q9UCR9            |
    | Q9UCS0            |
    | uc003hhe.1        |
    | uc003hhe.2        |
    | uc003hhe.3        |
    | C9J4T6            |
    | C9J4T6_HUMAN      |
    | ENST00000401931.1 |
    | LP896310          |
    | uc062xgp.1        |
    +-------------------+

