pubmed.mineR (version 1.0.1)

prevsymbol_fn: To Find Previous symbols of genes.

Description

prevsymbol_fn will return the previous symbols of the genes from the abstracts using HGNC data.

Usage

prevsymbol_fn(genes, data, abs, filename, terms)

Arguments

genes

genes a character vector containing genes

data

data HGNC data (downloadable from the site)

abs

abs an S4 object of class Abstracts.

filename

filename specify the name of output file

terms

terms query terms to be search from the abstracts.

Value

• It returns a text file containing gene symbol with corresponding previous symbols.

See Also

names_fn, official_fn

Examples

prevsymbol_fn("SIRT1", HGNCdata, diabetes_abs, "prevsym.txt", c("diabetic nephropathy", "DN")