biomartr (version 0.0.1)

organismBM: Retrieve Biomart Marts and Datasets for an Organism

Description

This function returns either all available biomart connections for all available organisms for which biomart access is possible, or (when specified) returns all organism specific biomart connections.

Usage

organismBM(organism = NULL, update = FALSE)

Arguments

organism

a character string specifying the scientific name of a query organism. Default is organism = NULL. In this case all available biomart connections are returned.

update

a logical value specifying whether or not the local listMart.txt and listDatasets.txt files shall be updated by remote access to BioMart.

Details

This function collects all available biomart connections and returns a table storing the organism for which biomart connections are available as well as the corresponding mart and dataset.

References

http://biomart.org/

Mapping identifiers for the integration of genomic datasets with the R/Bioconductor package biomaRt. Steffen Durinck, Paul T. Spellman, Ewan Birney and Wolfgang Huber, Nature Protocols 4, 1184-1191 (2009).

BioMart and Bioconductor: a powerful link between biological databases and microarray data analysis. Steffen Durinck, Yves Moreau, Arek Kasprzyk, Sean Davis, Bart De Moor, Alvis Brazma and Wolfgang Huber, Bioinformatics 21, 3439-3440 (2005).

See Also

getMarts, getDatasets, biomart, organismFilters, organismAttributes

Examples

# returning all available biomart connections
head(organismBM(), 20)

# retrieving all available datasets and biomart connections for
# a specific query organism (scientific name)
organismBM(organism = "Arabidopsis thaliana")

# you can also update the downloaded version using the "update = TRUE" argument
head(organismBM(update = TRUE), 20)