biolink (version 0.1.7)

biolink: biolink makes it easy to link to online resources

Description

biolink provides functions for generating urls and hyperlinks to commonly used biological databases and resources. This is primarily useful when writing dynamic reports that reference things like gene symbols in text or tables, allowing you to, for example, convert gene identifiers to hyperlinks pointing to their entry in the NCBI Gene database.

Arguments

Notable features

  • generate valid hyperlinks for LaTex, HTML and Markdown documents

  • hyperlink text and title attributes can be specified (where possible)

  • data tags can be used to insert certain kinds of information from select databases

See Also

the annotate package from Bioconductor