getGO {biomaRt}R Documentation

Retrieves GO information

Description

This function retrieves GO information from Ensembl given a gene identifier

Usage

getGO( id, type, mart)

Arguments

id gene identifier
type type of identifier, possible values can be obtained by the listFilters function. Examples are entrezgene, hgnc_symbol (for hugo gene sy mbol), ensembl_gene_id, unigene, agilentprobe, affy_hg_u133_plus_2, refseq_dna, etc.
mart object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart databases. You can create such an object using the function useMart.

Author(s)

Steffen Durinck

Examples

if(interactive()){

mart <- useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")

#example using affy id

go = getGO( id = "1939_at", type = "affy_hg_u95av2", mart = mart)
show(go)

#example using entrezgene id

go = getGO( id = 672, type = "entrezgene", mart = mart)
show(go)
}

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