genes.py

class Gene
    def init(line = ""):
        for pair in line.split(";"):
            splits = pair.split(" ")
            if len(splits) == 2:
                key = pair.split(" ")[0]
                value = pair.split(" ")[1] # TODO add some code to remove the quotes from the result
                self.data[key] = data

    def get(field):
        return self.data[field]


# Load the file and create genes
genes = []
with open('path/to/gene-file') as fp:
    for count, line in enumerate(fp):
        genes.append(Gene(line))