open_marker_id_in_mgi {mgi.report.reader}

Browse MGI markers identifiers online

Description

open_marker_id_in_mgi() launches the web browser and opens a tab for each MGI accession identifier on the Mouse Genome Informatics web interface: https://www.informatics.jax.org.

Usage

open_marker_id_in_mgi(marker_id)

Arguments

marker_id

A character vector. MGI accession identifiers.

Value

Returns TRUE if successful, or FALSE otherwise. But note that this function is run for its side effect of launching the browser.

Examples

# Read about Acta1 (actin alpha 1, skeletal muscle) online.
open_marker_id_in_mgi("MGI:87902")

# `open_marker_id_in_mgi()` is vectorized, so you can open multiple pages.
# NB: think twice if you really need to open many tabs at once.
open_marker_id_in_mgi(c("MGI:87902", "MGI:87909"))