load_mart {SWATH2stats} | R Documentation

## Establish connection to biomaRt database

### Description

This function establishes a connection to a biomart database.

### Usage

    load_mart(species, ensembl.path = "www.ensembl.org", mart, verbose = FALSE)

### Arguments

`species` | The species of the protein identifiers in the term used by biomaRt (e.g. "hsapiens_gene_ensembl", "mmusculus_gene_ensembl", "drerio_gene_ensembl", etc.)
`ensembl.path` | Ensembl host to connect to. Default: www.ensembl.org
`mart` | The type of mart (e.g. "ENSEMBL_MART_ENSEMBL", etc.)
`verbose` | print a summary of the ensembl connection.

### Value

Connection for performing biomart queries.

### Author(s)

Peter Blattmann

### Examples

    {
     data_table <- data.frame(Protein = c("Q01581", "P49327", "2/P63261/P60709"),
                              Abundance = c(100, 3390, 43423))
     mart <- convert_protein_ids(data_table)
     }

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