[BioC] from gene name to locuslink id

[Sean Davis]

Weiwei Shi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> suppose I have a list of gene names like below, is there a
> "fuzzy"-matching based algorithm to convert gene name to locuslink
> id's?
>
>   
>> head(anno[,4])
>>     
> [1] Comp   Rheb   Ctsj   Fgf18  Homer1 Ggtla1
>   
Weiwei,

You can grep on the Synonyms and Symbol columns from gene_info file 
located here:

ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/gene/DATA/

Read the README file for more details.

Sean