Get the structure ID of a brain region given its name

Description

Returns brain regions given (part of) their name, together with their structure IDs from the ontologies for the adult and for the developing brain (e.g. 'Allen:10657' as used throughout the ABAEnrichment package).

Usage

    get_id(structure_name)

Arguments

Value

a data frame with the full names of the brain structures that contain structure_name; together with the ontology ('developmental' or 'adult') and the structure IDs.

Author(s)

Steffi Grote

References

[1] Allen Institute for Brain Science. Allen Human Brain Atlas. Available from: http://human.brain-map.org/
[2] Allen Institute for Brain Science. BrainSpan Atlas of the Developing Human Brain. Available from: http://brainspan.org/

See Also

get_name
get_sampled_substructures
get_superstructures
browseVignettes("ABAData")

Examples

## get structure IDs of brain regions that contain 'accumbens' in their names
get_id('accumbens')
## get structure IDs of brain regions that contain 'telencephalon' in their name
get_id('telencephalon')
## get all brain regions that have direct or indirect expression data
all_regions = get_id('')
head(all_regions)