getGeneUriFromName: Get URI of a gene based on the common gene name.

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) Examples

View source: R/AtlasRDF.R

Description

Get the URI of an ENSEMBL gene based on a search by the common gene name.

Usage

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    getGeneUriFromName(genename, taxon, endpoint = "http://www.ebi.ac.uk/rdf/services/atlas/sparql")

Arguments

genename

The common gene name by which to search

taxon

The URI of the taxon to search genes for, use function getTaxonURI to get the URI

endpoint

The location of the SPARQL endpoint - default value is live Atlas endpoint

Value

list of gene URIs matching the query: note this can be more than one

Author(s)

James Malone, Simon Jupp

Examples

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###get the gene URI identifier based on the common gene name for "SRGN" in human
#getGeneUriFromName("SRGN", "obo:NCBITaxon_9606")

AtlasRDF documentation built on Nov. 17, 2017, 9:33 a.m.