Package: biomaRt
Version: 1.6.3
Date: 2006-07-17
Title: Interface to BioMart databases (e.g. Ensembl)
Author: Steffen Durinck <steffen.durinck@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>, Wolfgang
        Huber <huber@ebi.ac.uk>, Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Maintainer: Steffen Durinck <steffen.durinck@mail.nih.gov>
Depends: methods, XML, RCurl
Suggests: annotate
biocViews: Annotation
Description: The package provides and API in R to query BioMart
        databases such as Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org), a software
        system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on
        metazoan genomes.  Two sets of functions are currently
        implemented.  A first set of functions aims to mimic
        functionality of other BioMart APIs such as Martshell,
        Martview, etc. (see http://www.biomart.org for more
        information).  These functions are very general, and can be
        used with any BioMart system.  They allow retrieval of all
        information that other BioMart APIs provide.  A Second set of
        functions are tailored towards Ensembl and are a set of
        commonly used queries in microarray data analysis.  With these
        two sets of functions, one can for example annotate the
        features on your array with the latest annotations starting
        from identifiers such as affy ids, locuslink, RefSeq,
        entrezgene,.. Annotation includes gene names, GO, OMIM
        annotation, etc. The package also provides homology mappings
        between these identifiers across all species present in
        Ensembl.  Genes can be pre-selected such that they fulfill a
        certain requirement e.g. give all human refseq ids of genes
        known to be involved in diabetes.On top of this, biomaRt
        enables you to retrieve any type of information available from
        the BioMart databases from R.
License: LGPL version
URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck
SaveImage: yes
Packaged: Tue Jul 25 18:36:48 2006; biocbuild
Built: R 2.3.1; ; 2006-07-25 23:07:57; windows
