getUGShortName          package:AnnBuilder          R Documentation

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

     From a two-word scientific name of an organism, the functions
     construct a short string used by UniGene or others to represent
     the organism.

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

     getUGShortName(sciName)
     UGSciNames()
     getShortSciName(sciName)

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

 sciName: 'sciName' a character string for the scientific name of an
          organism

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     Given a two-word scientifc name for a given organism,
     'getUGShortName' figures out the short version used by UniGene as
     part of the name for the file containing data for the organism.

     'getShortSciName' takes a two-word scientific name of an organism
     and returns a three-letter string begining with the first letter
     of the genus name followed by the first two letters of the species
     name.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     'getUGShortName' returns a short version of organism name used by
     UniGene.

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

     Jianhua Zhang

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

     'ABPkgBuilder'

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

     ## Not run: 
         getUGShortName("Homo sapiens")
         getShortSciName("Homo sapiens")
     ## End(Not run)

