Use https://github.com/pachterlab/gget to get gene info (e.g. ncbi description, gene aliases, canonical transcript)

[tonydisera]

Look into using Python package gget to obtain gene annotations, such as ncbi description, gene aliases, and canonical transcript. This can be implemented in a iobio backend service and replace eutils calls to NCBI.

This is a rich resource that can return GO pathways/functions involving a specified gene or set of genes.

This resource can also return a list of the tissues in which a gene is expressed.