pubmed.mineR (version 1.0.15)

altnamesfun: To Get Alternative names of Genes

Description

This function is used to retrieve the Alternative names of genes from UniProt using HGNC gene symbol.

Usage

altnamesfun(m)

Arguments

m

is a character vector of HGNC official gene symbols.

Value

It returns a list of alternative names of given Gene symbols.

References

UniProt Consortium. "The universal protein resource (UniProt)." Nucleic acids research 36.suppl 1 (2008): D190-D195. http://www.uniprot.org/

See Also

uniprotfun, ~~~

Examples

# NOT RUN {
test = altnamesfun(c("ADIPOQ","BDNF"))
# }
# NOT RUN {
## here "ADIPOQ" is the HGNC gene symbol for which alternative name(s) is required.
# }