addDescription {seq2pathway} | R Documentation |
A function wrappered from Rpackage "biomaRt". Get gene description information from gene symbol information.
addDescription(genome=c("hg19","mm10","mm9"), genevector)
genome |
A character specifies the genome type. Currently, choice of "hg19", "mm10", and "mm9" is supported. |
genevector |
A characteristic vector of gene symbols. |
A characteristic matrix of gene symbols and descriptions.
Bin Wang
Durinck S, Spellman P, Birney E and Huber W (2009) Mapping identifiers for the integration of genomic datasets with the R/Bioconductor package biomaRt. Nature Protocols, 4, 1184–1191.
Durinck S, Moreau Y, Kasprzyk A, Davis S, De Moor B, Brazma A and Huber W (2005) BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis. Bioinformatics, 21, 3439–3440.
require(biomaRt) data(dat_chip) gene_description<-addDescription(genome="hg19",genevector=rownames(dat_chip)[1:3])