retrieve.genomic.loc: retrieve.genomic.loc

In drmjc/genomics: Genomics related functions.

Description

Lookup a GeneID at NCBI and see if there is a refseq record that has been mapped to the genome. Why? for some reason the gene2refseq file does not reflect the NCBI website all the time? strange.

Usage

  retrieve.genomic.loc(geneID, override.cache = FALSE,
    cache.dir = "~/data/mirror/gene.searches", sleep = 1)

Arguments

geneID	an Entrez GeneID
override.cache	a ncbi copy of the webpage is saved. This can be overwritten to get the very latest webpage if you desire.
sleep	if length(x) > 1, how many seconds should we sleep between batch commands?

Author(s)

Mark Cowley, 10 April 2006

Examples

## Not run: 
retrieve.genomic.loc( 11643 )

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drmjc/genomics documentation built on May 15, 2019, 2:22 p.m.