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Update gene symbol using NCBI Entrez Gene

Source: R/utils.R
update_gene_symbol.Rd

Update gene symbol using NCBI Entrez Gene

Usage

update_gene_symbol(
  gene.pool,
  ncbi = NA,
  species = c("Homo_sapiens", "Mus_musculus", "Pan_troglodytes", "Rattus_norvegicus",
    "Archaea", "Bacteria", "Escherichia_coli_str._K-12_substr._MG1655",
    "Pseudomonas_aeruginosa_PAO1", "Ascomycota", "Microsporidia", "Bos_taurus",
    "Penicillium_rubens", "Saccharomyces_cerevisiae", "Anopheles_gambiae",
    "Caenorhabditis_elegans", "Drosophila_melanogaster", "Canis_familiaris",
    "Sus_scrofa", "Danio_rerio", "Gallus_gallus", "Xenopus_laevis", "Xenopus_tropicalis",
    "Arabidopsis_thaliana", "Chlamydomonas_reinhardtii", 
     "Oryza_sativa",
    "Zea_mays", "Plasmodium_falciparum", "Retroviridae")
)

Arguments

gene.pool

The gene list

ncbi

The location to the NCBI file directory

species

Optional. To specify the species

Value

A vector with the latest gene symbols

See also

[alias2SymbolUsingNCBI()]

Examples

library(labyrinth)
update_gene_symbol('IL-6')
#> [1] "IL6"