MicroRNA IDs to Comments

Description

mirbaseCOMMENTS is an R object that provides mappings between microRNA identifiers and comments related to their description.

Details

Each microRNA identifier maps to a character string. The references cited in the comment can be found by using mirbasePMID.

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

See Also

mirbasePMID

Examples

  # first microRNA with a comment that includes a citation.
  mir1 <- intersect(mappedkeys(mirbaseCOMMENT),
                    mappedkeys(mirbasePMID))[1]
  get(mir1, mirbaseCOMMENT)
  get(mir1, mirbasePMID)