mirbaseDESCRIPTION {mirbase.db}R Documentation

MicroRNA IDs to Descriptions

Description

mirbaseDESCRIPTION is an R object that provides mappings between microRNA identifiers and their full names.

Details

Each microRNA identifier maps to a character string.

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

Examples

    x <- mirbaseDESCRIPTION
    # first 3 entries with a description.
    mget(mappedkeys(x)[1:3], x)

[Package mirbase.db version 1.2.0 Index]