[BioC] Gene symbol converter/translator

[Marc Carlson]

Hi Anh,


Bioconductor provides many packages to let you do that.  To find out 
more about these packages you might want to look here:

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/html/AnnotationDbi.html


And here you can find the latest release of these annotations packages:

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/data/annotation/


If you are looking to translate human mappings, as in your web page then 
you might want to try this package:

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/data/annotation/html/org.Hs.eg.db.html


And finally, if you use that specific package you will probably want to 
pay attention to the org.Hs.egGENENAME, org.Hs.egSYMBOL, and 
org.Hs.egALIAS2EG mappings. to get information about your question.  
Other annotation packages will have similar mappings available.


    Marc



Anh Tran wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering if there is any package that translate the gene symbol into
> its full name.
> The result would look something like this page (for the gene name)
> http://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/previous/carddisp.pl?gene=OLIG2
>
> Thanks
>
>