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Christopher Wilkinson
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Last seen 10.2 years ago
I have a query about the format of the organism name to use in
ABPkgBuilder and
getSrcUrl functions of AnnBuilder. It seems in some functions organism
should be
the official name (eg Mus Musculus) but in other functions it should
be the
common name (eg mouse).
The vignette states that you can get the src URls by calling
mySrcUrl <- getSrcUrl("all","mouse")
However this fails for Golden Path (UCSC) Url. The fix is to use the
scientific
name Mus Musculus. e.g.
mySrcUrl <- getSrcUrl("all","Mus Musculus")
When calling the ABPkgBuilder function it states that the organism
argument may
only be "human", "mouse" or "rat".
I assume if I use Mus Musculus in getSrcUrl and mouse in ABPkgBuilder
all will
be ok. This seems a little inconsistent so are there plans to accept
either
common or official name? I assume if I use organism = "Mus Musculus"
in
ABPkgBuilder it will generate an error.
Cheers
Chris
(RH9 Linux, R 2.1.0, BioC 1.6 = AnnBuilder 1.5.31)
Dr Chris Wilkinson
Senior Research Officer (Bioinformatics) | ARC Research Associate
Child Health Research Institute (CHRI) | Microarray Analysis Group
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