preston/idclight

A Ruby gem for accessing the freely available IDClight (IDConverter Light) web service, which convert between different types of gene IDs such as Hugo and Entrez. Queries are screen scraped from http://idclight.bioinfo.cnio.es.

idclight¶ ↑

A Ruby gem for accessing the freely available IDClight (IDConverter Light) web service at the Spanish National Cancer Centre at idclight.bioinfo.cnio.es, which convert between different types of gene ID systems such as Hugo and Entrez. Queries are screen scraped (yucky, I know) due to lack of an actually web services API.

Command-Line Usage¶ ↑

Examples

hugo_to_entrez.rb kras hugo_to_ensembl.rb kras ensembl_to_hugo.rb ENSG00000133703 ensembl_to_entrez.rb ENSG00000133703

Application Usage¶ ↑

Converting a Hugo ID to an Entrez ID¶ ↑

require ‘idclight’ include IDConverter::Light hugo_id_to_entrez_id(‘BRCA2’)

Getting Raw Data With Advanced Queries¶ ↑

require ‘idclight’ include IDConverter::Light data = search(@@HUGO, id, @@MOUSE) # See IDConverter::Light for a full list of supported constants.

Copyright¶ ↑

Copyright © 2010 Preston Lee. See LICENSE for details.