[BioC] AnnBuilder and Diverse Mappings

[Sean Davis]

On Thursday 22 February 2007 12:00, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build an annotation package for one of EBIs IPI data base
> using AnnBuilder. I'm trying to pull in the GO annotation unsing the mixed
> GenBank/RefSeq baseMapType, but the database is build from a very diverse
> set of sources and a significant number of entries has neither GenBank nor
> RefSeq IDs. The question to more advanced users is now: how would you
> proceed in this case? Is there a way to pull in Info using different
> baseMapTypes and than unify the outputs?

I think ultimately everything is mapped by AnnBuilder to an Entrez Gene ID, so 
if you can supply your own mapping to Entrez Gene ID from these various 
sources, that will probably suffice.  Many data sources provide such a 
mapping.  

Sean