NcbiGeneInfo: Import NCBI (Entrez) gene identifier information

In acidgenomics/AcidGenomes: Acid Genomics Genome Annotations

Import NCBI (Entrez) gene identifier information

Description

Import NCBI (Entrez) gene identifier information

Usage

NcbiGeneInfo(organism, taxonomicGroup = NULL, cache = TRUE)

Arguments

organism	character(1). Full Latin organism name (e.g. "Homo sapiens").
taxonomicGroup	character(1). NCBI FTP server taxonomic group subdirectory path (e.g. "Mammalia"). Defining this manually avoids having to query the FTP server.
cache	logical(1). Cache the gene info file from NCBI FTP server using BiocFileCache.

Value

NcbiGeneInfo.

Note

Updated 2023-09-26.

See Also

• https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/gene/DATA/GENE_INFO/

Examples

object <- NcbiGeneInfo(
    organism = "Homo sapiens",
    taxonomicGroup = "Mammalia"
)
print(object)

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