Package: biomaRt
Version: 2.2.0
Title: Interface to BioMart databases (e.g. Ensembl, Wormbase and
        Gramene)
Author: Steffen Durinck <steffen@stat.berkeley.edu>, Wolfgang Huber
        <huber@ebi.ac.uk>, Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Maintainer: Steffen Durinck <steffen@stat.berkeley.edu>
Depends: methods
Imports: XML, RCurl
Suggests: annotate
biocViews: Annotation
Description: In recent years a wealth of biological data has become
        available in public data repositories. Easy access to these
        valuable data resources and firm integration with data analysis
        is needed for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis.
        biomaRt provides an interface to a growing collection of
        databases implementing the BioMart software suite
        (http://www.biomart.org). The package enables retrieval of
        large amounts of data in a uniform way without the need to know
        the underlying database schemas or write complex SQL queries.
        Examples of BioMart databases are Ensembl, Uniprot, Gramene,
        Wormbase and HapMap. These major databases give biomaRt users
        direct access to a diverse set of data and enable a wide range
        of powerful online queries from gene annotation to database
        mining.
License: Artistic-2.0
LazyLoad: yes
Packaged: 2009-10-28 09:15:09 UTC; biocbuild
Built: R 2.10.0; ; 2009-10-28 14:28:18 UTC; windows
