download_txdb: Download transcript model from biomart

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/txdb_handling.R

Description

This function creates a TxDb object from the biomaRt ensembl database, converts it to a TxDb, and returns it (WARNING: this may take a few minutes.) To view available species for a given ensembl version run view_available_txdb().

Usage

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download_txdb(species, ensembl_version = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

species

the species to download the TxDb for. Use the first letter of the genus and the full species as one string (e.g. homo sapiens -> hsapiens).

ensembl_version

The Ensembl release version. Defaults to current release.

cache

whether to automatically cache the downloaded TxDb (Default: TRUE)

Value

TxDb object


CshlSiepelLab/DENR documentation built on July 16, 2021, 10:42 p.m.