getSymbols {GeneAnswers} | R Documentation |
function to convert given entrez gene IDs to gene symbols.
getSymbols(geneIDs, data, strict = FALSE, missing=c('name', 'keep', 'remove'))
geneIDs |
an Entrez gene IDs vector |
data |
annotation library |
strict |
logic value to stop conversion if NA is introduced. |
missing |
type of handling NA mapping. |
return a gene symbols vector of given gene IDs. There are three types of parameters for variable 'missing'. 'name' means the NA mapping values are replaced by their names. 'keep' means all of NA values are kept. 'remove' means all of NA values are removed.
Gang Feng, Pan Du and Simon Lin
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
require('org.Mm.eg.db') getSymbols(c('11651', '11836'), 'org.Mm.eg.db')