Map between Manufacturer Identifiers and Gene Symbols

Description

drosgenome1SYMBOL is an R environment that provides mappings between manufacturer ids and gene abbreviations.

Details

Each manufacturer id 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:

Entrez Gene:http://gopher5/compbio/annotationSourceData/ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA/. Built: Source data downloaded from Entrez Gene on Tue May 17 18:30:11 2005

Package built Tue May 17 18:35:56 2005

References

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

Examples

    # Convert the environment to a list
    xx <- as.list(drosgenome1SYMBOL)
    if(length(xx) > 0){
        # The symbols for the first two elements of XX
        xx[1:2]
        # Get the first one
        xx[[1]]
    }