getGOInfo {GOSim}R Documentation

Obtain GO terms and their description for a list of genes.

Description

Oobtain the GO terms and their description for a list of genes.

Usage

getGOInfo(geneIDs)

Arguments

geneIDs character vector of Entrez gene IDs

Value

List with entry names equal to the gene IDs. Each list contains a sublist with entry names equal to the GO terms associated to the corresponding gene ID. Each entry also contains a description of the GO term, its definition and the ontology ("BP","CC","MF") it belongs to.

Note

The corresponding information is directly extracted from the "GO" library. The result depends on the currently set ontology ("BP","MF","CC"), i.e. only GO terms within the actual ontology are considered. The shown GO information refers to the actually installed GO library.

Author(s)

Holger Froehlich

See Also

setOntology

Examples

## Not run: 
 if(require(annotate)){
        setOntology("BP")
        getGOInfo(c("207","7494"))
 }
## End(Not run)

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