searchId {BED}R Documentation

Search identifier, symbol or name information

Description

DEPRECATED: use searchBeid and geneIDsToAllScopes instead. This function is meant to be used with getRelevantIds in order to implement a dictonary of identifiers of interest. First the searchId function is used to search a term. Then the getRelevantIds function is used to find the corresponding ID in a context of interest.

Usage

searchId(
  searched,
  be = NULL,
  organism = NULL,
  ncharSymb = 4,
  ncharName = 8,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

searched

the searched term. Identifiers are searched by exact match. Symbols and names are also searched for partial match when searched is greater than ncharSymb and ncharName respectively.

be

optional. If provided the search is focused on provided BEs.

organism

optional. If provided the search is focused on provided organisms.

ncharSymb

The minimum number of characters in searched to consider incomplete symbol matches.

ncharName

The minimum number of characters in searched to consider incomplete name matches.

verbose

boolean indicating if the CQL queries should be displayed

Value

A data frame with the following fields:

Exact matches are returned first folowed by the shortest elements.

See Also

getRelevantIds


[Package BED version 1.5.2 Index]