| accessionToUID {annotate} | R Documentation |
Given one or more accession values, this function will attempt to convert them into NCBI UID values.
accessionToUID(...,db=c("genbank","pubmed"))
... |
Accession numbers to be transformed. |
db |
Which database this accession number refers to, defaults to Genbank |
Utilizes the PubMed tool pmqty.cgi to convert an accession number into a valid NCBI UID number.
WARNING: The powers that be at NCBI have been known to ban the IP addresses of users who abuse their servers (currently defined as less then 2 seconds between queries). Do NOT put this function in a type loop or you may find your access revoked.
Returns either a valid NCBI UID value or NULL (if there was nothing available).
Jeff Gentry
pubmed, locuslinkByID,
locuslinkQuery, xmlTreeParse
## 2005-10-13: NCBI URLs responding with encoding issue,
## commenting out example:
## ## The two returns from genbank should be the same
## genbank("U03397",type="accession",disp="data")
## x <- accessionToUID("U03397",db="genbank")
## genbank(x, type="uid",disp="data")
##
## ## Can handle multiple inputs
## accessionToUID("M16653","U892893",db="pubmed")