getFeature {biomaRt}R Documentation

Retrieves Feature starting from a gene symbol and array identifier

Description

This function function retrieves features representing a certain gene given a gene symbol array identifier

Usage

getFeature( symbol = NULL, array = NULL, type = NULL, mart = NULL)

Arguments

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.

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck

See Also

Examples

## Not run: 
mart <- martConnect()

#example using affy id from Ensembl

getFeature( symbol = "P53", array = "hg_u95av2", mart = mart)

martDisconnect(mart = mart)
## End(Not run)

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