Thanks. That was helpful. Save me from downloading HUGO database and loading them into MySQL. Best, Anh On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Marc Carlson wrote: > 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 >> >> >> > > -- Regards, Anh Tran [[alternative HTML version deleted]]