convert.hgnc.to.ensembl: Convert HGNC symbols to Ensembl identifiers using biomaRt

In kdkorthauer/MADGiC: Fits an empirical Bayesian hierarchical model to obtain posterior probabilities that each gene is a driver.

Description

This function takes an MAF table and returns a vector of Ensembl identifiers corresponding to the HGNC names in the "Hugo_Symbol" column.

Usage

  convert.hgnc.to.ensembl(table, ensembl)

Arguments

table	a matrix of MAF data that contains a column named "Hugo_Symbol" with the HGNC names
ensembl	an object created by useMart in the biomaRt package which tells the function which version of Ensembl to use

Value

a vector of Ensembl identifiers corresponding to the HGNC symbols, obtained from biomaRt.

Note

This internal function is not intended to be called by the user.

kdkorthauer/MADGiC documentation built on June 13, 2020, 1:35 p.m.