entrezGeneQuery {annotate} | R Documentation

## Create a Query String for Entrez Genes

### Description

Given a set of search terms this function creates a set of URLs that an be used to either open a browser to the requested location or that can be used as anchors in the construction of HTML output.

### Usage

    entrezGeneQuery(query)

### Arguments

`query` | The UniGene identifiers.

### Details

Using NCBI we construct an appropriate string for directing a web browser to information about genes of that type at NCBI.

### Value

A character vector containing the query string.

### Note

Be very careful about automatically querying this resource. It is considered antisocial behavior by the owners.

### Author(s)

Marc Carlson

### References

NCBI, https://www.ncbi.nih.gov/

### Examples

      q1<-entrezGeneQuery(c("leukemia", "Homo sapiens"))
      q1
      if( interactive())
        browseURL(q1[1])

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