Feeding BED: Register a database of biological entities in BED DB

Not exported to avoid unintended modifications of the DB.

Usage

registerBEDB(name, description = NA, currentVersion = NA, idURL = NA)

Arguments

name

of the database (e.g. "Ens_gene")

description

a short description of the database (e.g. "Ensembl gene")

currentVersion

the version taken into account in BED (e.g. 83)

idURL

the URL template to use to retrieve id information. A '%s' corresponding to the ID should be present in this character vector of length one.