How to Retrieve Record Summary with Bio.Entrez.esummary() function?

Bio.Entrez.esummary() function allows you to retrieve summary information of a given record in a given NCBI Databas. It uses the Entrez Web services provided by www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

1. Retrieve summary information from the "nlmcatalog" database for record id of 101660833, which can be obtained by the esearch() function.

fyicenter$ python 
>>> from Bio import Entrez
>>> Entrez.email = "A.N.Other@example.com"

>>> handle = Entrez.esummary(db="nlmcatalog", id="101660833")
>>> record = Entrez.read(handle)

>>> info = record[0]["TitleMainList"][0]
>>> print("Journal info\nid: {}\nTitle: {}".format(record[0]["Id"], info["Title"]))
Journal info
id: 101660833
Title: IEEE transactions on computational imaging.

1. Retrieve summary information from the "nucleotide" database for record id of "NC_069974.1", which can be obtained by the esearch() function.

>>> handle = Entrez.esummary(db="nucleotide", id="NC_069974.1")
>>> record = Entrez.read(handle)

>>> len(record)
1

>>> summary = record[0]
>>> summary
{'Item': [], 'Id': '2431509302', 'Caption': 'NC_069974', 
 'Title': 'Paphiopedilum godefroyae voucher hc19050 chloroplast, complete genome', 
 'Extra': 'gi|2431509302|ref|NC_069974.1|[2431509302]', 
 'Gi': IntegerElement(2431509302, attributes={}), 
 'CreateDate': '2023/01/25', 'UpdateDate': '2023/01/26', 
 'Flags': IntegerElement(768, attributes={}), 
 'TaxId': IntegerElement(53089, attributes={}), 
 'Length': IntegerElement(163128, attributes={}), 'Status': 'live', 
 'ReplacedBy': '', 'Comment': '  ', 'AccessionVersion': 'NC_069974.1'
}

⇒ Fetch Sequences from NCBI with Bio.Entrez.efetch()

⇐ Search NCBI Databases with Bio.Entrez.esearch()

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