searchEntrez: Search specified information from Entrez site

In GeneAnswers: Integrated Interpretation of Genes

Description

A function to search Entrez website by one given keywords list.

Usage

searchEntrez(tagList, species = "human")

Arguments

tagList	keyword list to search on Entrez.
species	specie for search on Entrez.

Value

an Entrez ID list containing all of relative genes from Entrez database.

Author(s)

Pan Du, Gang Feng and Simon Lin

References

Feng, G., Du, P., Krett, N., Tessel, M., Rosen, S., Kibbe, W.A. and Lin, S.M., 'A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations', BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:10

Examples

tagList <- list(FSHR=c('"FSHR"', '"Follicle stimulating hormone receptor"'), apoptosis=c('apoptosis'))
## Not run: entrezList <- searchEntrez(tagList, species='mouse')

Example output

Loading required package: igraph

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The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    decompose, spectrum

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    union

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The following objects are masked from ‘package:parallel’:

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ,
    clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply,
    parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from ‘package:igraph’:

    normalize, path, union

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    IQR, mad, sd, var, xtabs

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, basename, cbind, colnames,
    dirname, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, Filter, Find, get, grep,
    grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, Map, mapply, match, mget,
    order, paste, pmax, pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, Position, rank,
    rbind, Reduce, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply,
    union, unique, unsplit, which.max, which.min

Loading required package: Biobase
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    Vignettes contain introductory material; view with
    'browseVignettes()'. To cite Bioconductor, see
    'citation("Biobase")', and for packages 'citation("pkgname")'.

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    expand.grid

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    select

Loading required package: Heatplus
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Warning messages:
1: replacing previous import ‘stats::decompose’ by ‘igraph::decompose’ when loading ‘GeneAnswers’ 
2: replacing previous import ‘stats::spectrum’ by ‘igraph::spectrum’ when loading ‘GeneAnswers’ 

GeneAnswers documentation built on Nov. 8, 2020, 4:53 p.m.