annotate (version 1.50.0)

entrezGeneByID: Create a Query String for an Entrez Gene Identifier

Description

Given a set of UniGene identifiers this function creates a set of URLs that an be used to either open a browser to the requested location or that can be used as anchors in the construction of HTML output.

Usage

entrezGeneByID(query)

Arguments

query

Entrez Gene identifiers.

Value

A character vector containing the query string.

Details

Using NCBI we construct appropriate strings for directing a web browser to the Entrez Genes specified by their IDs.

References

NCBI, http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/

Examples

  q1<-entrezGeneByID(c("100", "1002"))
  q1
  if( interactive())
    browseURL(q1[1])