NcbiGeneInfo: Import NCBI (Entrez) gene identifier information

NcbiGeneInfoR Documentation

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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