[BioC] How to retrieve gene information

[toedling at ebi.ac.uk]

Hi Allen,

have a look at the biomaRt package:
http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/html/biomaRt.html
and see the vignette section 4.5 Task 5.
You may want to select additional attributes returned, such as
"description" etc. Use the "listAttributes" function to obtain of list of
possible attributes.

Best and Merry Christmas,
Joern

> Dear list,
>
> I am wondering if I supply with chromosome information, start and end
> position
> of a region, can any Bioconductor package could return a list of genes
> with
> short descriptions within those regions?
>
> Thanks and Merry Christmas!
>
> Allen
>
>