getGeneSeq {hoardeR}

Extracting a gene sequence from NCBI database.

Description

This function retrieves a gene sequence from the NCBI database.

Usage

  getGeneSeq(chr, start, end, organism)

Arguments

chr

Chromosome number, numeric/string

start

Start position, numeric

end

End position, numeric

organism

Name of the organism, string

Details

Extracting a gene sequence from NCBI database. For a list of available organism, visit

http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/das/dsn. All id="." field are available.

Value

A string that contains the genomic sequence.

Author(s)

Daniel Fischer

Examples

## Not run: 
# Extracting for Sus Scrofa, build version 3:
getGeneSeq(1,2134,14532,"susScr3")
getGeneSeq(10,1233312,1233350,"hg38")

## End(Not run)