searchEntrez {GeneAnswers}R Documentation

Search specified information from Entrez site

Description

A function to search Entrez website by one given keywords list.

Usage

searchEntrez(tagList, species = "human")

Arguments

tagList

keyword list to search on Entrez.

species

specie for search on Entrez.

Value

an Entrez ID list containing all of relative genes from Entrez database.

Author(s)

Pan Du, Gang Feng and Simon Lin

References

Feng, G., Du, P., Krett, N., Tessel, M., Rosen, S., Kibbe, W.A. and Lin, S.M., 'A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations', BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:10

Examples

tagList <- list(FSHR=c('"FSHR"', '"Follicle stimulating hormone receptor"'), apoptosis=c('apoptosis'))
## Not run: entrezList <- searchEntrez(tagList, species='mouse')

[Package GeneAnswers version 2.24.0 Index]