Here’s a quick method to get HGNC symbols and names that draws upon data from UCSC and the open source MyGene.info project: There’s a Python script in there that I call get_hgnc_names_for_symbols.py: The pipeline above writes a two-column text file called hgnc_symbols_with_names.txt that contains the HGNC symbol (e.g., AAR2) and its name (e.g., AAR2 splicing factor […]