Hi, 

I use UniProt.ws package to access data in my projects. One thing I miss often is to convert easily UniProt taxon names to scientific species names, like ECOLX to Escherichia coli, or HUMAN to Homo sapiens. Manual conversion is a no-go for larger projects (I do often phylogenetics with dozens of such conversions).

I have written three new functions to assist this:

taxname2species() # ECOLX -> Escherichia coli

taxname2taxid() # ECOLX -> 562

taxname2domain() # 
ECOLX -> B

These works also in vector context, e.g.

> taxname2species(c("HUMAN","YEAST","PIG","ABIBR","ECOLX"))
[1] "Homo sapiens"             "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" "Sus scrofa"              
[4] "Abies bracteata"          "Escherichia coli"        

The code is in pastebin: 

http://pastebin.com/M4BvUvT7

I would like to add this code to the UniProt.ws package, but I could not figure out how to do that for the documentation. I do not want to create a new package, as it is clearly in the domain of UniProt.ws.

I would appreciate any advice on this. (I have some experience with git, no svn.)

Thank you,

Csaba

Hi Csaba,

These look like useful helper functions. If you put together a patch (code, man page and unit tests) I can add this to UniProt.ws. Please make sure UniProt.ws passes R CMD build and check with your new additions. Let me know (valerie.obenchain@roswellpark.org) when it's ready.

Valerie