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Get symbols of Biological Entity identifiers

Source: R/getBeIdSymbols.R
getBeIdSymbols.Rd

Get symbols of Biological Entity identifiers

Usage

getBeIdSymbols(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 getBeIdSymbolTable function

Value

a data.frame with the following fields:

  • id: the from BE ID

  • symbol: the BE symbol

  • canonical: true if the symbol is canonical for the direct BE ID

  • direct: false if the symbol is not directly associated 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

getBeIdSymbolTable, getBeIdNames

Examples

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