GeneAnswers (version 2.14.0)

getHomoGeneIDs: Get homologous genes of given genes

Description

Map given gene IDs to homologous gene IDs.

Usage

getHomoGeneIDs(oriGeneIDs, species = c("human", "rat", "mouse", "yeast", "fly"), speciesL = c("human", "rat", "mouse", "yeast", "fly"), mappingMethod = c("direct", "biomaRt", "none"))

Arguments

oriGeneIDs

a given entrez gene IDs

species

species of the current genes

speciesL

species of the mapped genes

mappingMethod

mapping method, see details

Value

return homologous gene IDs of given genes

Details

There are two mapping methods supported by current version. "direct" only works between human and mouse because most of human gene symbols are capitalized and only the first letter is uppercase for those homogenes in mouse. Another way is by means of package "biomaRt" ,which contains more information while the network connection is necessary to access biomaRt online server.

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

Examples

getHomoGeneIDs(c('56458', '16590'), species='m', speciesL='h', mappingMethod='direct')