MicroRNA IDs to Chromosomes

Description

mirbaseCHR is an R object that provides mappings between microRNA identifiers and the chromosome that contains the microRNA of interest.

Details

Each microRNA identifier maps to a vector of character strings representing possibly multiple chromosomes.

Source: miRBase (Version: 19) ftp://mirbase.org/pub/mirbase/CURRENT/ With a date stamp from the source of: 01 Aug 2012

Examples

    x <- mirbaseCHR
    # Get the microRNA identifiers that are mapped to a chromosome
    mapped_keys <- mappedkeys(x)
    # Convert to a list
    xx <- as.list(x[mapped_keys])
    if(length(xx) > 0) {
        # Get the CHR for the first five entries
        xx[1:5]
    }