pc_synonyms: Search synonyms in pubchem
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pc_synonyms

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Search synonyms in pubchem

Description

Search synonyms using PUG-REST, see https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

Usage

pc_synonyms(
  query,
  from = c("name", "cid", "sid", "aid", "smiles", "inchi", "inchikey"),
  match = c("all", "first", "ask", "na"),
  verbose = getOption("verbose"),
  arg = NULL,
  choices = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

`query`	character; search term.
`from`	character; type of input, can be one of "name" (default), "cid", "sid", "aid", "smiles", "inchi", "inchikey"
`match`	character; How should multiple hits be handled? `"all"` returns all matches, `"first"` returns only the first result, `"ask"` enters an interactive mode and the user is asked for input, `"na"` returns `NA` if multiple hits are found.
`verbose`	logical; should a verbose output be printed on the console?
`arg`	character; optional arguments like "name_type=word" to match individual words.
`choices`	deprecated. Use the `match` argument instead.
`...`	currently unused

Value

a named list.

Note

Please respect the Terms and Conditions of the National Library of Medicine, https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download.html the data usage policies of National Center for Biotechnology Information, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/home/about/policies/, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/docs/programmatic-access, and the data usage policies of the indicidual data sources https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sources/.

References

Wang, Y., J. Xiao, T. O. Suzek, et al. 2009 PubChem: A Public Information System for Analyzing Bioactivities of Small Molecules. Nucleic Acids Research 37: 623–633.

Kim, Sunghwan, Paul A. Thiessen, Evan E. Bolton, et al. 2016 PubChem Substance and Compound Databases. Nucleic Acids Research 44(D1): D1202–D1213.

Kim, S., Thiessen, P. A., Bolton, E. E., & Bryant, S. H. (2015). PUG-SOAP and PUG-REST: web services for programmatic access to chemical information in PubChem. Nucleic acids research, gkv396.

Examples

## Not run: 
pc_synonyms("Aspirin")
pc_synonyms(c("Aspirin", "Triclosan"))
pc_synonyms(5564, from = "cid")
pc_synonyms(c("Aspirin", "Triclosan"), match = "ask")

## End(Not run)

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