getGO                package:biomaRt                R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function is now defunct, use getBM instead.  See vignette for
     an example to retrieve GO information from Ensembl using
     getBM..This function retrieves GO identifiers, GO descriptions and
     evidence codes from Ensembl given a vector of gene identifier.  A
     wide variety of gene indentifiers can be used as inputs.  The list
     of possible identifiers that can be used as input, can be found
     using the listFilters function.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getGO( id, type, mart)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

      id: gene identifier

    type: type of identifier, possible values can be obtained by the
          listFilters function.  Examples are  entrezgene, hgnc_symbol
          (for hugo gene sy mbol), ensembl_gene_id, unigene,
          agilentprobe, affy_hg_u133_plus_2,  refseq_dna, etc.

    mart: object of class Mart, containing connections to the BioMart
          databases.  You can create such an object using the function
          useMart.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Steffen Durinck, http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~steffen

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     if(interactive()){

     mart <- useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")

     #example using affy id

     go = getGO( id = "1939_at", type = "affy_hg_u95av2", mart = mart)
     show(go)

     #example using entrezgene id

     go = getGO( id = 672, type = "entrezgene", mart = mart)
     show(go)
     }

