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Get names of Biological Entity identifiers

Source: R/getBeIdNames.R
getBeIdNames.Rd

Get names of Biological Entity identifiers

Usage

getBeIdNames(ids, be, source, organism, limForCache = 4000, ...)

Arguments

ids

list of identifiers

be

one BE. Guessed if not provided

source

the BE ID database. Guessed if not provided

organism

organism name. Guessed if not provided

limForCache

if there are more ids than limForCache results are collected for all IDs (beyond provided ids) and cached for futur queries. If not, results are collected only for provided ids and not cached.

...

params for the getBeIdNameTable function

Value

a data.frame mapping BE IDs and names with the following fields:

  • id: the BE ID

  • name: the corresponding name

  • canonical: true if the name is canonical for the direct BE ID (often FALSE for backward compatibility)

  • direct: true if the name is directly related to the BE ID

  • preferred: true if the id is the preferred identifier for the BE

  • entity: (optional) the technical ID of to BE

See also

getBeIdNameTable, getBeIdSymbols

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
getBeIdNames(
   ids=c("10", "100"),
   be="Gene",
   source="EntrezGene",
   organism="human"
)
} # }