getFeature {biomaRt} | R Documentation |
This function function retrieves features representing a certain gene given a gene symbol array identifier
getFeature( symbol = NULL, array = NULL, type = NULL, mart = NULL)
symbol |
gene identifier |
array |
array identifier only to be used if gene identifiers are from affy arrays. An overview of the accepted identifiers can be obtained with the function: getAffyArrays() |
type |
type of input identifier, this is either locuslink, embl or refseq. |
mart |
object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart databases. You can creat such an object using the function martConnect. |
Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck
## Not run: mart <- martConnect() #example using affy id from Ensembl getFeature( symbol = "P53", array = "hg_u95av2", mart = mart) martDisconnect(mart = mart) ## End(Not run)