I am quite familiar with using functions such as getPMID() to get abstracts from PubMed, but would like to be able to execute PubMed searches using text (such as gene names or aliases) directly from within R. Does BioConductor offer such functionality? Thanks, Mark W. Kimpel MD ? Official Business Address: ? Department of Psychiatry Indiana University School of Medicine Biotechnology, Research, & Training Center 1345 W. 16th Street Indianapolis, IN ?46202 ? Preferred Mailing Address: ? 15032 Hunter Court Westfield, IN? 46074 ? (317) 490-5129 Home, Work, & Mobile 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX

You might want to look at this package: http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/20/18/36 59 The code has moved around, but a Google search will probably get you close. Alternatively, look at the eutils documentation at NCBI. Finally, there may be another package out there that does this sort of thing that I am not aware of. Sean On 5/11/06 2:01 PM, "Kimpel, Mark William" <mkimpel at="" iupui.edu=""> wrote: > I am quite familiar with using functions such as getPMID() to get abstracts > from PubMed, but would like to be able to execute PubMed searches using text > (such as gene names or aliases) directly from within R. Does BioConductor > offer such functionality? > > Thanks, > > Mark W. Kimpel MD > > ? > Official Business Address: > ? > Department of Psychiatry > Indiana University School of Medicine > Biotechnology, Research, & Training Center > 1345 W. 16th Street > Indianapolis, IN ?46202 > ? > Preferred Mailing Address: > ? > 15032 Hunter Court > Westfield, IN? 46074 > ? > (317) 490-5129 Home, Work, & Mobile > 1-(317)-536-2730 FAX > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor