getNihSummary: Gather NIH Gene Data

In ungeneanno: Collate Gene Annotation Data from Uniprot and NIH Gene Databases

Description

getNihSummary collates data returned from a html request to the NCBI publicly available gene database to populate the gene object. Accessing the NCBI NIH databases is a two stage process; the getNihSummary function carries out the second stage in relation to the NCBI "gene" database, populating NIH specific slots in a gene object.

Usage

getNihSummary(x, y)

## S4 method for signature 'gene'
getNihSummary(x, y)

Arguments

x	gene object
y	query object (see getNihQuery())

Value

gene object a copy of the input object 'x', having the uniprot data added.

Methods (by class)

• gene: gene object a copy of the input object 'x', having the uniprot data added.

Examples

## Not run: 
f <- query()
f@gene <- "BRAF"
db <- "gene"
f <- getNihQuery(f,db,f@gene)
gene <- getNihSummary(gene(),f)

## End(Not run)

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