get.location: Load genomic locations from biomart

Description Usage Arguments Value

View source: R/plotting.R

Description

get.location Load genome locations for a list of genes

Usage

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get.location(gene.symbols, data_set, gene_name)

Arguments

gene.symbols

character vector; Vector of gene names to look up genomic coordinates for

data_set

character; which dataset from Ensembl should be used, e.g. "mmusculus_gene_ensembl" or "hsapiens_gene_ensembl"

gene_name

character; which biomart value to use for matching e.g. "external_gene_name"

Value

data.table with columns: "gene_symbol", "chromosome_name" and "start_position"


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