listMarts              package:biomaRt              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function returns a list for marts to which it can connect to.
     To establish a connection use the function martConnect with
     argument the name in the list (not the actual value e.g. use
     ensembl and not the full string of the database including release
     version).  You can also use this function to get the release
     information of the current databases which you using.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     listMarts(mart, host, user, password, includeHosts = FALSE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    mart: mart object

    host: host to connect to

    user: username

password: password

includeHosts: boolean to indicate if function should return host of the
          BioMart databases

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Steffen Durinck, <URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     if(interactive()){
     listMarts(mart = "ensembl")
     }

