getENSEMBL: Download sequence or annotation from ENSEMBL

In HajkD/biomartr: Genomic Data Retrieval

Download sequence or annotation from ENSEMBL

Description

Backend function for retrieving files sequence and annotation files from the ENSEMBL ftp server

Usage

getENSEMBL(
  organism,
  type = "dna",
  id.type = "toplevel",
  release = NULL,
  path,
  format
)

Arguments

organism	Organism selector id, there are three options to characterize an organism: by scientific name: e.g. organism = "Homo sapiens" by database specific accession identifier: e.g. organism = "GCF_000001405.37" (= NCBI RefSeq identifier for Homo sapiens) by taxonomic identifier from NCBI Taxonomy: e.g. organism = "9606" (= taxid of Homo sapiens)
type	character, biological sequence type (e.g. "dna", "cds")
id.type	a character, default "toplevel". id type of assembly, either "toplevel" or "primary_assembly" for genomes. Can be other strings, for non genome objects.
release	a numeric, the database release version of ENSEMBL (db = "ensembl"). Default is release = NULL meaning that the most recent database version is used. release = 75 would for human would give the stable GRCh37 release in ensembl. Value must be > 46, since ensembl did not structure their data if the standard format before that.
path	location where file shall be stored.
format	"gff3", alternative "gtf" for ensembl.

Value

either a character path to downloaded file, or a logical FALSE, specifying failure.

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

HajkD/biomartr documentation built on Dec. 9, 2023, 7:25 p.m.