R/convertHgncToEnsembl.R

In blogsdon/utilityFunctions:

convertHgncToEnsembl <- function(hgncIds){

    library(biomaRt)
    ensembl=biomaRt::useMart('ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL',
                           dataset = 'hsapiens_gene_ensembl',
                           host='www.ensembl.org')

    genes<-getBM(attributes = c('ensembl_gene_id','external_gene_name'),
               filters='external_gene_name',
               values=hgncIds,
               mart=ensembl)
    return(genes)
}