gene-class: An S4 class to represent a gene.
In ungeneanno: Collate Gene Annotation Data from Uniprot and NIH Gene Databases

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An S4 class to represent a gene.

name: A character string stating the name of the gene as found in NCBI.
nih_id: A numeric value stating the NCBI gene database identifier for the gene.
nih_summary: A character string describing the function and interactions of the gene as found in the NCBI.
uniprot_name: A character string stating the name of the gene as found in Uniprot.
uniprot_protein_name: A character string stating the name of the protein gene product as found in Uniprot.
uniprot_summary: A vector of character strings describing the function and interactions of the gene as found in the Uniprot dataset.
alternatives: A vector of character strings stating commonly used alternative names for the gene (from NCBI).
symbol: A character string stating the offical gene symbol (from NCBI).
chromosome: A character string stating the chromosome upon which the gene resides (from NCBI).
start: A character string stating the chromosomal position of the transcription start (from NCBI).
stop: A character string stating the chromosomal position of the transcription stop (from NCBI).
exon_count: A character stating the number of exons in the gene (from NCBI).
chraccver: A character string stating the NIH accession number and version for the chromosome (from NCBI).
map_location: A character string representing the location of the gene on the karyotype (from NCBI).
direction: A character string [forward/reverse] identifying the direction of the gene on the chromosome (from NCBI).