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The Organism information for SomaScan

SomaScanORGANISM.Rd

SomaScanORGANISM is an R object that contains a single item: a character string that names the organism for which SomaScan was built. SomaScanORGPKG is an R object that contains a character vector with the name of the organism package that a chip package depends on for its gene-centric annotations.

Details

SomaScanORGANISM provides a simple way to programmatically extract the organism name. SomaScanORGPKG provides a simple way to programmatically extract the name of the parent organism package. The parent organism package is a strict dependency for chip packages, as this is where the gene-centric information is ultimately extracted from. The full package name will always be this string plus the extension ".db". But most programmatic access will not require this extension, so it is more convenient to leave it out.

Value

A Bimap object of the ProbeAnnDbBimap class.

See also

AnnotationDb-class for use of the select() interface.

Examples

## select() interface:
## Objects in this package can be accessed using the select() interface
## from the AnnotationDbi package. See ?select for details.

## Bimap interface:
SomaScanORGANISM
#> [1] "Homo sapiens"
SomaScanORGPKG
#> [1] "org.Hs.eg"