Hullo Marc,

Nice to see your reply. Can you point me to a PDF of a manual listing the
kinds of IDs to whom mappings are available?

Many Thanks in advance

With Kind Regards

Ramachandran





On Dec 15, 2007 2:00 AM, Marc Carlson <mcarlson@fhcrc.org> wrote:

> Srinivasan Ramachandran wrote:
> > Hullo All,
> >
> > I want to retrieve GI numbers of entries fitting to the gene definition
> (say
> > for example "PII protein"  etc.) as given in NCBI. What is the function
> in
> > Bioconductor? I know getSEQ which needs GI no. and I also know getGI
> which
> > needs Genbank accession number. These 2 functions probably cannot answer
> get
> > GI given a gene definition.
> >
> > I appreciate any help or suggestion
> >
> > With kind regards
> >
> > Ramachandran
> > Dr. S. Ramachandran
> > Scientist E I
> > G.N. Ramachandran Knowledge Centre for Genome Informatics
> > Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
> > Mall Road, Delhi 110 007
> > Tel: 091-11-2766-6156
> > Fax: 091-11-2766-7471
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> I feel that I should caution you against this plan.  In general I think
> you want to avoid using things as identifiers that were not meant to be
> identifiers.
>
> Do you have any other kind of information that is at least meant to
> represent an ID?  Perhaps a Unigene, ensemble or refseq ID?
>
> We provide maps for many other popular kinds of IDs, but not for the
> definitions.
>
>
>    Marc
>



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