Package

r-biomart

Description

Interface to BioMart databases (i.e. Ensembl). In recent years a wealth
of biological data has become available in public data repositories.
Easy access to these valuable data resources and firm integration with
data analysis is needed for comprehensive bioinformatics data analysis.
biomaRt provides an interface to a growing collection of databases
implementing the BioMart software suite (<http://www.biomart.org>). The
package enables retrieval of large amounts of data in a uniform way
without the need to know the underlying database schemas or write
complex SQL queries. The most prominent examples of BioMart databases
are maintain by Ensembl, which provides biomaRt users direct access to a
diverse set of data and enables a wide range of powerful online queries
from gene annotation to database mining.

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