ID convention (from SYMBOL to ENSEMBL)

This function takes an array of SYMBOL and convert it into GENE ENSEMBL.

get_Symbol2GeneEnsembl(symbol.arr, dataset = "mmusculus_gene_ensembl")

Arguments

symbol.arr,

a character array. The SYMBOL array.

dataset,

must be either "mmusculus_gene_ensembl" or "hsapiens_gene_ensembl".

Value

A data frame contains 3 columns, "Gene", original ID, "Symbol" and "description".