MicroRNA IDs to Family

Description

mirbaseFAMILY is an R object that provides mappings between microRNA identifiers and their family.

Details

Each microRNA identifier maps to a character string which is the miRNA gene family ID. The name of the returned value is the family name.

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

Examples

    x <- mirbaseFAMILY
    # first 3 microRNA with a family.
    mget(mappedkeys(x)[1:3], x)