Why does Homo.sapiens import TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene instead of TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38.knownGene?

> library(Homo.sapiens)
Loading required package: AnnotationDbi
Loading required package: stats4
Loading required package: BiocGenerics
Loading required package: parallel

Attaching package: ‘BiocGenerics’

The following objects are masked from ‘package:parallel’:

    clusterApply, clusterApplyLB, clusterCall, clusterEvalQ, clusterExport, clusterMap, parApply, parCapply, parLapply, parLapplyLB, parRapply, parSapply, parSapplyLB

The following objects are masked from ‘package:stats’:

    IQR, mad, xtabs

The following objects are masked from ‘package:base’:

    Filter, Find, Map, Position, Reduce, anyDuplicated, append, as.data.frame, as.vector, cbind, colnames, do.call, duplicated, eval, evalq, get, grep, grepl, intersect, is.unsorted, lapply, lengths, mapply, match, mget, order, paste, pmax,
    pmax.int, pmin, pmin.int, rank, rbind, rownames, sapply, setdiff, sort, table, tapply, union, unique, unlist, unsplit

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Loading required package: IRanges
Loading required package: S4Vectors
Loading required package: OrganismDbi
Loading required package: GenomicFeatures
Loading required package: GenomeInfoDb
Loading required package: GenomicRanges
Loading required package: GO.db
Loading required package: DBI
Loading required package: org.Hs.eg.db
Loading required package: TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene
Now getting the GODb Object directly
Now getting the OrgDb Object directly
Now getting the TxDb Object directly

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.2 (2015-08-14)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=en_GB.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=C               LC_MONETARY=en_GB.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=C              LC_PAPER=en_GB.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
 [1] Homo.sapiens_1.3.1                      TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene_3.2.2 org.Hs.eg.db_3.2.3                      GO.db_3.2.2                             RSQLite_1.0.0                           DBI_0.3.1
 [7] OrganismDbi_1.12.1                      GenomicFeatures_1.22.13                 GenomicRanges_1.22.4                    GenomeInfoDb_1.6.3                      AnnotationDbi_1.32.3                    IRanges_2.4.8
[13] S4Vectors_0.8.11                        Biobase_2.30.0                          BiocGenerics_0.16.1                     BiocInstaller_1.20.1                    vimcom_1.2-7.2                          colorout_1.0-2
[19] setwidth_1.0-4

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] Rcpp_0.12.3                futile.logger_1.4.1        XVector_0.10.0             bitops_1.0-6               futile.options_1.0.0       tools_3.2.2                zlibbioc_1.16.0            biomaRt_2.26.1             graph_1.48.0               Rgraphviz_2.14.0
[11] rtracklayer_1.30.3         CellNOptR_1.16.0           Biostrings_2.38.4          grid_3.2.2                 XML_3.98-1.4               RBGL_1.46.0                BiocParallel_1.4.3         lambda.r_1.1.7             Rsamtools_1.22.0           GenomicAlignments_1.6.3
[21] SummarizedExperiment_1.0.2 colorspace_1.2-6           RCurl_1.95-4.8

Thank you,

Hi,

The OrganismDb packages are fairly new and currently we only have 3 pre-built packages for human, rat and mouse. This first round we chose a general naming convention vs the more descriptive one used for BSgenome or TxDb. We plan to continue development on this class after the April release, see this discussion. Please add your 2 cents there - the more feedback the better.

You can make your own OrganismDb with a different TxDb using one of these helpers:

library(OrganismDbi)

> ?makeOrganism <hit tab>
?makeOrganismDbFromBiomart  ?makeOrganismDbFromTxDb     ?makeOrganismDbFromUCSC     ?makeOrganismPackage

Valerie