biomaRt

Interface to BioMart databases (e.g. Ensembl, Wormbase and Gramene)

In recent years a wealth of biological data has become available in public data repositories. Easy access to these valuable data resources and firm integration with data analysis is needed for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis. biomaRt provides an interface to a growing collection of databases implementing the BioMart software suite (http://www.biomart.org). The package enables retrieval of large amounts of data in a uniform way without the need to know the underlying database schemas or write complex SQL queries. Examples of BioMart databases are Ensembl, Uniprot, Gramene, Wormbase and HapMap. These major databases give biomaRt users direct access to a diverse set of data and enable a wide range of powerful online queries from gene annotation to database mining.

Author Steffen Durinck , Wolfgang Huber , Sean Davis
Maintainer Steffen Durinck

To install this package, start R and enter:

    source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
    biocLite("biomaRt")

Documentation

The biomaRt users guide PDF R Script
Reference Manual

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Package source biomaRt_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binary biomaRt_2.0.0.zip
MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) binary biomaRt_2.0.0.tgz
MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) binary biomaRt_2.0.0.tgz
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