Map Wormbase accession numbers with Entrez Gene identifiers

Description

celegansWORMBASE is an R object that contains mappings between Entrez Gene identifiers and Wormbase accession numbers.

Details

This object is a simple mapping of Entrez Gene identifiers http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene to Wormbase Accessions.

Mappings were based on data provided by: Entrez Gene ( ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA ) on 2008-Sep2

Examples

    x <- celegansWORMBASE
    # Get the entrez gene IDs that are mapped to an Wormbase ID
    mapped_genes <- mappedkeys(x)
    # Convert to a list
    xx <- as.list(x[mapped_genes])
    if(length(xx) > 0) {
      # Get the Wormbase IDs for the first five genes
      xx[1:5]
      # Get the first one
      xx[[1]]
    }