getGroups {biomartr}

Retrieve available groups for a kingdom of life (only available for NCBI RefSeq and NCBI Genbank)

Description

A short list of available groups for a kingdom of life.

Usage

getGroups(db = "refseq", kingdom)

Arguments

db

a character string specifying the database from which the genome shall be retrieved:

• db = "refseq"

• db = "genbank"

Default is db = "refseq".

kingdom

a character string specifying for which kingdom of life groups shall be retrieved. See getKingdoms for details.

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

See Also

meta.retrieval, getGenome, getProteome, getCDS, getKingdoms

Examples

# get possible kigdom names
getKingdoms(db = "refseq")
## Not run: 
# retrieve subgroups for vertebrate_mammalian available from refseq
getGroups(db = "refseq", kingdom = "vertebrate_mammalian")

# get possible kigdom names
getKingdoms(db = "genbank")
# retrieve subgroups for vertebrate_mammalian available from genbank
getGroups(db = "genbank", kingdom = "vertebrate_mammalian")

## End(Not run)