I have a list of Taqman assay IDs that I am trying to annotate eg MSMB-Hs00159303_m1. They are all exon-spanning probe assays (ie ending _m1) as described here  http://www.lifetechnologies.com/uk/en/home/communities-social/blog/blogs/the-hows-whats-and-whys-of-gene-expression-assay-design.html

The Life Technologies website does provides some information for each assay at  https://www.lifetechnologies.com/us/en/home/life-science/pcr/real-time-pcr/real-time-pcr-assays.html.  After searching for gene expression assays for MSMB and clicking on "gene expression" a list of assays appears eg  Hs00159303_m1 and when I click on "view details" I'm able to discover the Entrez ID is 4477, the UniGene ID is Hs.255462, as well as other useful information.
I wondered if there was any automatic way via a bioconductor function of obtaining such useful annotation of Taqman assay IDs. Often the part of the assay name before the -Hs seems to be the HUGO gene symbol (so that lends itself to BIoMart) but that's not always the case eg NKX3-1-Hs00171834_m1 (NKX3-1 is not a HUGO symbol).

Many thanks in advance


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