Thanks steffen for the assurance. I will try your suggestion. > Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:56:31 -0800> Subject: Re: [BioC] Using wildcard with BiomaRt:getBM> From: steffen@stat.Berkeley.EDU> To: daren76@hotmail.com> CC: bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch> > Hi Daren,> > Wildcards don't work. I would query for all genes and then subselect in R.> This is not too heavy on the server as it is made for these type of batch> queries (you could store the result so you don't have to do it again for a> while):> > ensembl = useMart("ensembl", dataset="hsapiens_gene_ensembl")> ids = getBM(attributes=c("hgnc_symbol","chromosome_name",> "start_position"), mart=ensembl)> > > should do it.> > Cheers,> Steffen> > > >> > Hi,> >> > I need to obtain information via biomaRt for all members of interleukin.> > Trying the following command failed, apparently, getBM doesn't support> > regexp. I could download all the gene names and filter locally, but this> > will stress the hosting server and prolong communication time.> >> > getBM(attributes=c("hgnc_symbol, "start_position"), filter="hgnc_symbol",> > values="IL.*", mart=ensembl)> >> > _______________________________________________> > Bioconductor mailing list> > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor> > Search the archives:> > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor> >> _________________________________________________________________ [[elided Hotmail spam]] [[alternative HTML version deleted]]