agSYMBOL {ag}R Documentation

Map between Manufacturer Identifiers and Gene Symbols

Description

agSYMBOL is an R environment that provides mappings between manufacturer identifiers and gene abbreviations.

Details

Each manufacturer identifier is mapped to an abbreviation for the corresponding gene. An NA is reported if there is no known abbreviation for a given gene.

Symbols typically consist of 3 letters that define either a single gene (ABC) or multiple genes (ABC1, ABC2, ABC3). Gene symbols can be used as key words to query public databases such as Entrez Gene.

Mappings were based on data provided by:

Tair: ftp://ftp.arabidopsis.org/home/tair/Microarrays/Affymetrix/affy_AG_array_elements-2006-07-14.txt Tair: ftp://ftp.arabidopsis.org/home/tair/Genes/TAIR_sequenced_genes Tair: ftp://ftp.arabidopsis.org/home/tair/User_Requests/LocusPublished.02022007 Built: N/A

Package built Fri Aug 24 17:42:16 2007

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene

Examples

    # Convert the environment to a list
    xx <- as.list(agSYMBOL)
    if(length(xx) > 0){
        # The symbols for the first two elements of XX
        xx[1:2]
        # Get the first one
        xx[[1]]
    }

[Package ag version 2.0.1 Index]