geneLocs {GGtools} | R Documentation

## gene metadata from NCBI

### Description

gene metadata from NCBI

### Usage

    data(geneLocs)
    data(geneLocs_hsa)
    data(geneLocs_mmu)

### Details

A `data.frame` instance with information relating gene symbol to chromosome and providing start and end positional information.

### Value

instance of class `data.frame`

### Note

The geneLocs structure should be available for multiple species. Thus the three letter code suffix will be present on the standard offering in the future.

There is absolutely no guarantee that the information in these structures is at all accurate. The provenance subdirectory of the package includes notes on how the files were derived. The package author finds it difficult to obtain clear information on the state of the art on gene location assertions; suggestions of more accurate sources are welcome.

### Author(s)

Vince Carey <stvjc@channing.harvard.edu>

### References

NCBI ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/H_sapiens/mapview/seq_gene.md.gz for the human data.

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/M_musculus/mapview/seq_gene.md.gz for the mouse data.

### Examples

    data(geneLocs_hsa)
    # be patient
    geneLocs_hsa[1:4,]

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