getGenesInformations: Get gene annotations

Description Usage Arguments Details Value See Also

View source: R/getGenesInformations.R

Description

This function uses biomaRt and AnnotationDbi to add gene annotations as node attributes in a network from stringgaussnet package.

Usage

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getGenesInformations(Identifiers, ensembl)

Arguments

Identifiers

Can be Ensembl IDs or HGNC symbols. Ensembl IDs are recommended.

ensembl

A mart dataset object

Details

Firstly, this function adds cellular localizations of gene products. A prioritization is performed to rank gene products localizations from nuclear, the most relevant, and then extracellular, plasma membrane and cytoplasm. Secondly, those annotations are added from biomaRt: chromosome name, band, strand, start and end positions, and gene descriptions.

Value

A matrix of node attributes with annotations.

See Also

getSTRINGNet, getSIMoNeNet, getWGCNANet


stringgaussnet documentation built on May 29, 2017, 10:50 a.m.