Select Pandas Rows With Regex Match

I have the following data-frame. and I have an input list of values I want to match each item from the input list to the Symbol and Synonym column in the data-frame and to extr

Solution 1:

IIUIC, use

In [346]: df[df.Synonyms.str.contains('|'.join(mylist))]
Out[346]:
     Symbol                   Synonyms
0      A1BG       A1B|ABG|GAB|HYST2477
1       A2M  A2MD|CPAMD5|FWP007|S863-72     A2MP1                       A2MP
6  SERPINA3       AACT|ACT|GIG24|GIG25

Solution 2:

Check in both columns by str.contains and chain conditions by | (or), last filter by boolean indexing:

mylist = ['GAB', 'A2M', 'GIG24']
m1 = df.Synonyms.str.contains('|'.join(mylist))
m2 = df.Symbol.str.contains('|'.join(mylist))

df = df[m1 | m2]

Another solution is logical_or.reduce all masks created by list comprehension:

masks = [df[x].str.contains('|'.join(mylist)) for x in ['Symbol','Synonyms']]
m = np.logical_or.reduce(masks)

Or by apply, then use DataFrame.any for check at least one True per row:

m = df[['Symbol','Synonyms']].apply(lambda x: x.str.contains('|'.join(mylist))).any(1)

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df = df[m]

print (df)
     Symbol                   Synonyms
0      A1BG       A1B|ABG|GAB|HYST2477
1       A2M  A2MD|CPAMD5|FWP007|S863-7
2     A2MP1                       A2MP
6  SERPINA3       AACT|ACT|GIG24|GIG25

Solution 3:

The question has changed. What you want to do now is to look through the two columns (Symbol and Synonyms) and if you find a value that is inside mylist return it. If no match you can return 'No match!' (for instance).

import pandas as pd
import io

s = '''\
Symbol,Synonyms
A1BG,A1B|ABG|GAB|HYST2477
A2M,A2MD|CPAMD5|FWP007|S863-7
A2MP1,A2MP
NAT1,AAC1|MNAT|NAT-1|NATI
NAT2,AAC2|NAT-2|PNAT
NATP,AACP|NATP1
SERPINA3,AACT|ACT|GIG24|GIG25'''

mylist = ['GAB', 'A2M', 'GIG24']
df = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(s))

# Store the lookup serie
lookup_serie = df['Symbol'].str.cat(df['Synonyms'],'|').str.split('|')

# Create lambda function to return first value from mylist, No match! if stop-iteration
f = lambda x: next((i for i in x if i in mylist), 'No match!')

df.insert(0,'Input_Symbol',lookup_serie.apply(f))
print(df)

Returns

  Input_Symbol    Symbol                   Synonyms
0          GAB      A1BG       A1B|ABG|GAB|HYST2477
1          A2M       A2M  A2MD|CPAMD5|FWP007|S863-72    No match!     A2MP1                       A2MP
3    No match!      NAT1       AAC1|MNAT|NAT-1|NATI
4    No match!      NAT2            AAC2|NAT-2|PNAT
5    No match!      NATP                 AACP|NATP1
6        GIG24  SERPINA3       AACT|ACT|GIG24|GIG25

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Old solution:

f = lambda x: [i for i in x.split('|') if i in mylist] != []

m1 = df['Symbol'].apply(f)
m2 = df['Synonyms'].apply(f)

df[m1 | m2]