pm.getabst {annotate} | R Documentation

## Obtain the abstracts for a set PubMed list.

### Description

The data provided by PubMed is reduced to a small set. This set is then suitable for further rendering.

### Usage

    pm.getabst(geneids, basename)

### Arguments

`geneids` | The identifiers used to find Abstracts
`basename` | The base name of the annotation package to use.

### Details

We rely on the annotation in the package associated with the `basename` to provide PubMed identifiers for the genes described by the gene identifiers. With these in hand we then use the `pmfetch` utility to download the PubMed abstracts in XML form. These are then translated (transformed) to a shorter version containing a small subset of the data provided by PubMed.

This function has the side effect of creating an environment in `.GlobalEnv` that contains the mapping for the requested data. This is done for efficiency – so we don't continually read in the data when there are many different queries to be performed.

### Value

A list of lists containing objects of class `pubMedAbst`. There will be one element of the list for each identifier. Each of these elements is a list containing one abstract (of class `pubMedAbst` for each PubMed identifier associated with the gene identifier.

### Author(s)

Robert Gentleman

### See Also

`pm.abstGrep`, `pm.titles`

### Examples

      library("hgu95av2.db")
      hoxa9 <- "37806_at"
      absts <- pm.getabst(hoxa9, "hgu95av2")

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