getCategoryList: Retrieve categories containing given genes
Description
Function to retrieve specified category IDs containing given genes.
Usage
getCategoryList(geneVector, lib, categoryType)
Arguments
geneVector
an Entrez gene IDs vector
lib
annotation library to be used to retrieve categories terms.
categoryType
type of category
Value
return a category list, names of the list are category IDs and elements are genes IDs.
Details
The current version only supports Bioconductor team maintained annotation libraries, like 'org.Bt.eg.db', 'org.Ce.eg.db', 'org.Cf.eg.edu', 'org.Dm.eg.db', 'org.Dr.eg.db', 'org.EcK12.eg.db', 'org.EcSakai.eg.db', 'org.Gg.eg.db', 'org.Hs.eg.db', 'org.Mm.eg.db', 'org.Rn.eg.db' and 'org.Ss.eg.db'.
References
Feng, G., Du, P., Krett, N., Tessel, M., Rosen, S., Kibbe, W.A. and Lin, S.M., 'A collection of bioconductor methods to visualize gene-list annotations', BMC Research Notes 2010, 3:10