bconv: Client-side interface to obtain the KEGG ids for external...

In kozo2/keggapi: Client-side REST access KEGG

Description

Given a gene identifier, the functions queries KEGG to retrieve the appropriate KEGG ID.

Usage

bconv(id.list)

Arguments

id.list

a character vector containing the IDs that you wish to convert to KEGG IDs. These IDs must have the appropriate prefix!

Details

Depending on the kind of ID you wish to convert, you must use the appropriate prefix followed by a colo and then the correct ID.

Prefixes supported by KEGG:

External database Database prefix —————– ————— NCBI GI ncbi-gi: NCBI GeneID ncbi-geneid: GenBank genbank: UniGene unigene: UniProt uniprot:

Value

The functions return a named vector with your initial IDs as the names and the appropriate KEGG IDs as the value.

Author(s)

Kozo Nishida

References

http://www.kegg.jp/kegg/docs/keggapi.html, http://www.genome.jp/linkdb/

Examples

        bconv(c("hsa:10458", "ece:Z5100"))

kozo2/keggapi documentation built on May 20, 2019, 1:11 p.m.