Hi all, I'm working with proteins. Does anybody knows which is the easiest way and the appropriate package to retrieve some protein names starting from proteins codes? Example: Q7VYR0 -> GTP-binding elongation factor CAA09473 -> P.69A protein (pertactin) AAA22974 -> filamentous hemagglutinin etc... Thanks a lot Giulio. _________________________________________________________________ Proteggi i tuoi segreti con internet Explorer 8 r-online.aspx [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear Giulio, Many alternatives are available such as org.Hs.xx or biomaRt. However, you can query UniProt web site (http://www.uniprot.org/faq/28) using RCurl. library(RCurl) textGather = basicTextGatherer() handle = getCurlHandle(writefunction = textGather$update, followlocation = TRUE, verbose = TRUE) curlPerform(url=" http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?format=tab&query=accession:Q7VYR0&colu mns=id,protein%20names", curl = handle) textGather$value() [1] "Accession\tProtein names\nQ7VYR0\tGTP-binding elongation factor\n" sapply(strsplit(strsplit(textGather$value(),split="\n")[[1]],split="\t "),as.character) [,1] [,2] [1,] "Accession" "Q7VYR0" [2,] "Protein names" "GTP-binding elongation factor" Hope it works, for you Kachelo 2010/3/5 Giulio Di Giovanni <perimessaggini@hotmail.com> > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working with proteins. Does anybody knows which is the easiest way and > the appropriate package to retrieve some protein names starting from > proteins codes? > > Example: > > > > > > Q7VYR0 -> GTP-binding elongation factor > > CAA09473 -> P.69A protein (pertactin) > > AAA22974 -> filamentous hemagglutinin > > > > etc... > > > > Thanks a lot > > > > Giulio. > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Proteggi i tuoi segreti con internet Explorer 8 > > r-online.aspx > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]