getPossibleXrefs {biomaRt} | R Documentation |
This function retrieves the possible cross-references present in Ensembl. This is a very general function to see what can be extracted from Ensembl. The results of this function can be used in the getXref function to extract the data of interest.
getPossibleXrefs(mart)
mart |
object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart databases. You can create such an object using the function useMart. |
Sean Davis, Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck
if(interactive()){ mart <- useMart("ensembl",mysql=TRUE) xref <- getPossibleXrefs(mart = mart) xref[1:10,] martDisconnect(mart = mart) }