[BioC] Retrieving sequences from NCBI

Marc Carlson mcarlson at fhcrc.org
Wed Jul 9 23:09:02 CEST 2008


Hi,

You can use the biomaRt package to do stuff like this.

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


    Marc




J. Miguel Marin wrote:
> Dear users,
>
> I do not know whether this is a very simple question but I could not 
> solve by myself...
> I would like to know if there exists in Bioconductor something like 
> the matlab command "getgenbank". It serves to retrieve sequence 
> information from the GenBank database in a simple way, and to download 
> just the sequences to analyze them.
> I have seen the GEOquery and seqinr libraries but I could not download 
> some given mitochondrial sequences.
>
> Best
>
> jm~
>
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