locuslinkQuery           package:annotate           R Documentation

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_s_e_a_r_c_h _q_u_e_r_y.

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     Given a search string, will query the Locuslink site and passes
     the returned page to the browser.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     locuslinkQuery(query,...,lladdress="LocusLink/", browse=TRUE)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

   query: The search query to use

     ...: The species to search on.  Defaults to "Hs" - human.

lladdress: The subdirectory off of the NCBI site for LocusLink. 

  browse: If TRUE, will open the URL in a web browser

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     A simple function which takes a search string and a set of
     species, and will perform a locuslink query, returning the results
     to the browser.  Tips on creating good search strings, as well as
     current species abbreviations can be found at:
     'http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/LocusLink/help.html'

_V_a_l_u_e:

     If 'browse' is TRUE, the user's web browser is directed to that
     URL. The URL found is returned if 'browse' is FALSE.

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jeff Gentry

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'genbank' 'pubmed' 'locuslinkByID'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

        if( interactive() )
           locuslinkQuery("abc","Hs","Mm")