convertGeneIdentifiers {psichomics} | R Documentation

## Convert gene identifiers

### Description

Convert gene identifiers

### Usage

    convertGeneIdentifiers(
      annotation,
      genes,
      key = "ENSEMBL",
      target = "SYMBOL",
      ignoreDuplicatedTargets = TRUE
    )

### Arguments

`annotation` | `OrgDb` with genome wide annotation for an organism or `character` with species name to query `OrgDb`, e.g. `"Homo sapiens"`
`genes` | Character: genes to be converted
`key` | Character: type of identifier used, e.g. `ENSEMBL`; read `?AnnotationDbi::columns`
`target` | Character: type of identifier to convert to; read `?AnnotationDbi::columns`
`ignoreDuplicatedTargets` | Boolean: if `TRUE`, identifiers that share targets with other identifiers will not be converted

### Value

Character vector of the respective targets of gene identifiers. The previous identifiers remain other identifiers have the same target (in case `ignoreDuplicatedTargets = TRUE`) or if no target was found.

### See Also

Other functions for gene expression pre-processing: `filterGeneExpr()`, `normaliseGeneExpression()`, `plotGeneExprPerSample()`, `plotLibrarySize()`, `plotRowStats()`

### Examples

    # Use species name to automatically look for a OrgDb database
    sp <- "Homo sapiens"
    genes <- c("ENSG00000012048", "ENSG00000083093", "ENSG00000141510",
               "ENSG00000051180")
    convertGeneIdentifiers(sp, genes)
    convertGeneIdentifiers(sp, genes, key="ENSEMBL", target="UNIPROT")

    # Alternatively, set the annotation database directly
    ah <- AnnotationHub::AnnotationHub()
    sp <- AnnotationHub::query(ah, c("OrgDb", "Homo sapiens"))[[1]]
    columns(sp) # these attributes can be used to change the attributes

    convertGeneIdentifiers(sp, genes)
    convertGeneIdentifiers(sp, genes, key="ENSEMBL", target="UNIPROT")

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