loadBE {BED}

Feeding BED: Load biological entities in BED

Description

Not exported to avoid unintended modifications of the DB.

Usage

loadBE(
  d,
  be = "Gene",
  dbname,
  version = NA,
  deprecated = NA,
  taxId = NA,
  onlyId = FALSE
)

Arguments

d

a data.frame with information about the entities to be loaded. It should contain the following fields: "id". If there is a boolean column named "preferred", the value is loaded.

be

a character corresponding to the BE type (default: "Gene")

dbname

the DB from which the BE ID are taken

version

the version of the DB from which the BE IDs are taken

deprecated

NA (default) or the date when the ID was deprecated

taxId

the taxonomy ID of the BE organism

onlyId

a logical. If TRUE, only an BEID is created and not the corresponding BE.