Map uniprot entry name to accession number
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Diego Diez ▴ 760
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Last seen 4.0 years ago
Japan

Is there a way to map Uniprot names (e.g. RASH_HUMAN) to other identifiers using Bioconductor? I have tried biomaRt, the AnnotationDbi-based packages and uniprot.ws, but all seem to need accession accession numbers. I had more hope with uniprot.ws since it is possible to do this conversion from the uniprot web site itself.

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Mike Smith ★ 6.6k
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Last seen 5 hours ago
EMBL Heidelberg

I don't know whether you can do it with uniprot.ws, but you can query their ID conversion tool directly using the httr package.

library(httr)
results <- POST(url = "http://www.uniprot.org/mapping/",
            body = list(from = 'ID',
                        to = 'ACC',
                        format = 'tab',
                        query = 'RASH_HUMAN A4_HUMAN RASH_MOUSE'))
content(results, type = 'text/tab-separated-values', col_names = TRUE, col_types = NULL, encoding = "ISO-8859-1")
       From     To
1 RASH_HUMAN P01112
2   A4_HUMAN P05067
3 RASH_MOUSE Q61411

Just change the 'to' argument to retrieve a different identifier.  The full list they provide is here. I'm not sure you can get back multiple mappings in a single query, so if you want more you might need to run several queries and mash your results back together.

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Excellent! I very quickly experimented with httr but seems I didn't really know how to use it. This not only solves my problem but it is  educational. Thank you!

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How to retrieve the complete list of ID and ACC. No specific query as mentioned here.

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Please don't ask questions using years-old posts. Instead post a new question.

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