Hi Dan, I don't know if it is quite what you are looking for or not, but there are a set of custom annotation packages based on the GeneCards database which are maintained by Francesco Ferrari. You can see them listed on the annotation page here: http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/ Marc On 09/13/2010 04:14 AM, Sean Davis wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Daniel Brewer <daniel.brewer at="" icr.ac.uk="">wrote: > > >> Hello, >> >> Just wondering if there was a way to interrogate genecards v3 from >> within bioconductor/R? >> >> >> > Hi, Dan. > > Are you aware of an API for querying and returning structured data from > GeneCards? As far as I know, the information is limited to HTML results to > online queries. Also, I am not aware of batch query capabilities for that > site (well, they are limited to 100 genes/day, so I don't count that as > batch). > > What information were you interested in getting from GeneCards? It might be > possible to get that information via other resources like biomaRt, NCBI, > UCSC, or the annotation packages. > > Sean > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >