The selection is based on direct identifiers
Usage
largestBeSource(
be,
organism,
rel = NA,
restricted = TRUE,
exclude = c("BEDTech_gene", "BEDTech_transcript")
)Arguments
- be
the biological entity under focus
- organism
the organism under focus
- rel
a type of relationship to consider in the query (e.g. "is_member_of") in order to focus on specific information. If NA (default) all be are taken into account whatever their available relationships.
- restricted
boolean indicating if the results should be restricted to current version of to BEID db. If FALSE former BEID are also taken into account.
- exclude
database to exclude from possible selection. Used to filter out technical database names such as "BEDTech_gene" and "BEDTech_transcript" used to manage orphan IDs (not linked to any gene based on information taken from sources)
Value
The name of the selected source. The selected source will be the one providing the largest number of current identifiers.