Package: biomaRt
Version: 1.10.1
Title: Interface to BioMart databases (e.g. Ensembl, Wormbase, Gramene
        and Uniprot)
Author: Steffen Durinck <durincks@mail.nih.gov>, Wolfgang Huber
        <huber@ebi.ac.uk>, Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov>
Maintainer: Steffen Durinck <durincks@mail.nih.gov>
Depends: methods, XML, RCurl
Suggests: annotate
biocViews: Annotation
Description: The package provides an API in R to query BioMart
        databases such as Ensembl (http://www.ensembl.org), a software
        system which produces and maintains automatic annotation on
        metazoan genomes.  Two sets of functions are currently
        implemented.  A first set of functions aims to mimic
        functionality of other BioMart APIs such as Martshell,
        Martview, etc. (see http://www.biomart.org for more
        information).  These functions are very general, and can be
        used with any BioMart system.  They allow retrieval of all
        information that other BioMart APIs provide and enable data
        mining of the respective databases.  A Second set of functions
        are tailored towards Ensembl and are a set of commonly used
        queries in microarray data analysis.  With these two sets of
        functions, one can for example annotate the features on your
        array with the latest annotations starting from identifiers
        such as Affymetrix, RefSeq, entrezgene,.. Annotation includes
        gene names, GO, OMIM annotation, etc. The package also provides
        homology mappings between these identifiers across all species
        present in Ensembl.  Genes can be pre-selected such that they
        fulfill a certain requirement e.g. give all human RefSeq ids of
        genes known to be involved in diabetes. On top of this, biomaRt
        enables you to retrieve any type of information available from
        the BioMart databases from R. Other examples of BioMart
        databases are Wormbase and Gramene.
License: Artistic License 2.0
SaveImage: yes
Packaged: Sat Jul 14 03:26:04 2007; biocbuild
Built: R 2.5.0; ; 2007-07-14 06:16:26; windows
