For convenience, entrez <-> ensembl maps come bundled with the is package. While there are other sactioned ways to achieve this within the bioconductor ecosystem, we bundle it here to make our lives easier.

load_id_xref(species, ..., as.dt = FALSE)

Arguments

species

The name of the species to load the entrez <-> ensembl xref table for. Currently we only provide tables for human and mouse ... and we shouldn't even provide those in here, but ...

Value

a table of ensembl and entrez ids for each species

Details

These tables are gnerated by the inst/scripts/genereate-id-maps.R