genomes (version 2.16.0)

elink: Entrez database links

Description

Find links between Entrez databases at NCBI

Usage

elink(id, cmd = "neighbor_history", parse = TRUE, showURL = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

id

An EntrezHistory object or vector of Ids

cmd

Command mode

parse

Parse results into an EntrezHistory object (default) or vector of linked Ids (if cmd="neighbor"). All other cmd options return XML

showURL

display URL string

...

Other key-value pairs such as dbfrom, db, linkname passed to the elink url string

Value

esearch

Details

See einfo to find available links

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499

Examples

## Not run: 
# elink("15718680,157427902", dbfrom="protein", db="gene")
# elink("15718680,157427902", dbfrom="protein", db="gene", cmd="neighbor")
# 
# # list linknames
# einfo("genome", TRUE)[, 1:2]
# x <- esearch("Nipah virus", "genome")
# # dbfrom is set to "genome" and default link is "genome_nuccore"  
# y <- elink(x, db="nuccore")
# y
# # Links to reference AND genbank sequence the reference was derived from
# esummary(y)
# # OR link to Other genomes for Species
# esummary( elink(x, db="nuccore", linkname="genome_nuccore_samespecies"))
# ## End(Not run)