searchEntrez {GeneAnswers} | R Documentation

## Search specified information from Entrez site

### Description

A function to search Entrez website by one given keywords list.

### Usage

    searchEntrez(tagList, species = "human")

### Arguments

`tagList` | keyword list to search on Entrez.
`species` | specie for search on Entrez.

### Value

an Entrez ID list containing all of relative genes from Entrez database.

### Author(s)

Pan Du, Gang Feng and Simon Lin

### References

Feng, G., Du, P., Krett, N., Tessel, M., Rosen, S., Kibbe, W.A. and Lin, S.M., 'A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations', BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:10

### Examples

    tagList <- list(FSHR=c('"FSHR"', '"Follicle stimulating hormone receptor"'), apoptosis=c('apoptosis'))
    ## Not run: entrezList <- searchEntrez(tagList, species='mouse')

[Package GeneAnswers version 2.28.0 Index]