[BioC] Where to get BAM files for easyRNASeq human use case ALSO ANNOTATION

[Steve Lianoglou]

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Richard Friedman
<friedman at cancercenter.columbia.edu> wrote:
[snip]
>         I would like then to ask a broader question - one that I was
> going to ask after I completed the vignette:
> Is it possible to obtain annotation for RNASeq data analogous
> to the kind obtained for microarrays?
> To be specific, when I analyze affymetrix microarrays I get, for
> each probeset the Entrez gene symbol and a description of the gene
> which could be several words long, as well as gene ontology categories
> and pathways. I can output this information as an Excel spreadsheet.
> When I work through  the drosophila vignette with transcriptCounts or
> geneCounts I got accession numbers (e.g.,"FBtr0005009") but no gene
> symbols etc.
>
> Do you have any suggestions as to how to get Entrez Gene Symbols,
> descriptions, etc, for RNASeq output with easy RNASeq?
[/snip]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but given accession numbers (or other
gene identifiers), it should be pretty straightforward to jimmy up
something using the org.*.eg.db packages, no?

I suspect you won't get gene descriptions there -- but if I were a
gambling man, I would bet you can probably get that last piece of the
puzzle from biomaRt.

HTH,
-steve

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Steve Lianoglou
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 | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
 | Weill Medical College of Cornell University
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