getGeneId: Extract gene ID from gene-name and getGeneId.

In refGenome: Gene and Splice Site Annotation Using Annotation Data from 'Ensembl' and 'UCSC' Genome Browsers

Description

The function searches in the given refGenome object for gene_name values and returns gene id values. For unkown gene names, NA is returned.

Usage

getGeneId(object, geneName)

Arguments

object

ensemblGenome, Object from which gene ID are extracted.

geneName

Character: Vector of gene names (factor also accepted).

Value

character

Author(s)

Wolfgang Kaisers

Examples

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## A) Ensembl genome:
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ensfile<-system.file("extdata",
                        "hs.ensembl.62.small.RData", package="refGenome")
ens<-loadGenome(ensfile)
getGeneId(ens, c("DDX11L1", "WASH7P"))

refGenome documentation built on May 23, 2019, 1:03 a.m.