demi (version 1.1.2)

getTargetAnnotation: Returns annotation information for the specified targets

Description

Returns annotation information for the specified targets from a DEMIExperiment object. Depending on the analysis parameter in the DEMIExperiment object the target parameter can be an ensembl gene ID or gene symbol (e.g. 'MAOB'), ensembl transcript ID, ensembl peptide ID or genomic region ID.

Usage

getTargetAnnotation(object, target)
"getTargetAnnotation"(object, target)

Arguments

object

A DEMIExperiment object.

target

A vector. A vector of targets whose annotation information should be returned. Depending on the analysis the target can be ensembl gene ID or gene symbol (e.g. 'MAOB'), ensembl transcript ID, ensembl peptide ID or genomic region ID.

Value

Returns annotation information from DEMIExperiment object specified by the targets.

Details

To see available targets used in the analysis you can try head(getAnnotation(x)) where x is an object of class DEMIExperiment.

See Also

DEMIExperiment

Examples

## Not run: 
# 
# # To use the example we need to download a subset of CEL files from
# # http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE9819 published
# # by Pradervand et al. 2008.
# 
# # Set the destination folder where the downloaded files fill be located.
# # It can be any folder of your choosing.
# destfolder <- "demitest/testdata/"
# 
# # Download packed CEL files and change the names according to the feature
# # they represent (for example to include UHR or BRAIN in them to denote the
# # features).
# # It is good practice to name the files according to their features which
# # allows easier identification of the files later.
# 
# ftpaddress <- "ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/samples/GSM247nnn"
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247694/suppl/GSM247694.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "UHR01_GSM247694.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247695/suppl/GSM247695.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "UHR02_GSM247695.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247698/suppl/GSM247698.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "UHR03_GSM247698.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247699/suppl/GSM247699.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "UHR04_GSM247699.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247696/suppl/GSM247696.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "BRAIN01_GSM247696.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247697/suppl/GSM247697.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "BRAIN02_GSM247697.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247700/suppl/GSM247700.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "BRAIN03_GSM247700.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# download.file( paste( ftpaddress, "GSM247701/suppl/GSM247701.CEL.gz", sep = "/" ),
# 		destfile = paste( destfolder, "BRAIN04_GSM247701.CEL.gz", sep = "" ) )
# 
# # We need the gunzip function (located in the R.utils package) to unpack the gz files.
# # Also we will remove the original unpacked files for we won't need them.
# library( R.utils )
# for( i in list.files( destfolder ) ) {
# 	gunzip( paste( destfolder, i, sep = "" ), remove = TRUE )
# }
# 
# # Now we can continue the example of the function getTargetAnnotation
# 
# # Set up an experiment
# demiexp <- DEMIExperiment( analysis = 'gene', celpath = destfolder,
# 			experiment = 'myexperiment', organism = 'homo_sapiens' )
# 
# # Retrieve the target annotation for gene symbol 'MAOB' and 'NGB'
# getTargetAnnotation( demiexp, c( "MAOB", "NGB" ) )
# 
# ## End(Not run)