addDescription {seq2pathway} | R Documentation

## Retrieve "gene description" attributes for gene symbol.

### Description

A function wrappered from Rpackage "biomaRt". Get gene description information from gene symbol information.

### Usage

    addDescription(genome=c("hg19","mm10","mm9"), genevector)

### Arguments

`genome` | A character specifies the genome type. Currently, choice of "hg19", "mm10", and "mm9" is supported.
`genevector` | A characteristic vector of gene symbols.

### Value

A characteristic matrix of gene symbols and descriptions.

### Author(s)

Bin Wang

### References

Durinck S, Spellman P, Birney E and Huber W (2009) Mapping identifiers for the integration of genomic datasets with the R/Bioconductor package biomaRt. Nature Protocols, 4, 1184–1191.

Durinck S, Moreau Y, Kasprzyk A, Davis S, De Moor B, Brazma A and Huber W (2005) BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis. Bioinformatics, 21, 3439–3440.

### Examples

      require(biomaRt)
      data(dat_chip)
      gene_description<-addDescription(genome="hg19",genevector=rownames(dat_chip)[1:3])

[Package seq2pathway version 1.18.0 Index]