[BioC] Converting to official gene symbols

[Gundala Viswanath]

Hi,


>> Is there a function available on Bioconductor to convert gene symbol
>> aliases to official gene symbols?


Yes. Is this you what you are looking for?


> source('http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
> biocLite() # installs a number of pacakges
> biocLite('hgu95av2.db') # a particular chip 'annotation' file
> library(hgu95av2.db)
> hgu95av2GENENAME[["1053_at"]]
[1] "replication factor C (activator 1) 2, 40kDa"
> hgu95av2SYMBOL[["1053_at"]]
[1] "RFC2"

Further option can be found here:
> help(package=hgu95av2.db)

and

> openVignette()


- G.V.
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