Convert Ensembl, Unigene, Uniprot and RefSeq IDs to Symbol IDs in R using Bioconductor

Hello, I have programmed a function that converts different sources of IDs to Symbol IDs.

The input ID types allowed are (at the moment):  Ensembl, Unigene, Uniprot and RefSeq.

The code is available clicking here

NOTE: The function depends on the Bioconductor package "org.Hs.eg.db" available here

For example, lets show 10 Ensembl IDs:

> id[1:10]
 [1] "ENSG00000121410" "ENSG00000175899" "ENSG00000256069" "ENSG00000171428"
 [5] "ENSG00000156006" "ENSG00000196136" "ENSG00000114771" "ENSG00000127837"
 [9] "ENSG00000129673" "ENSG00000090861"

And their Symbol IDs:

> res[1:10]

 [1] "A1BG"     "A2M"      "A2MP1"    "NAT1"     "NAT2"     "SERPINA3"

 [7] "AADAC"    "AAMP"     "AANAT"    "AARS"    

This is a running example of the function to convert Unigene IDs to Symbol IDs (For all the other IDs types, just replace "unigene" to "ensembl" or "refseq" or "uniprot"):

# USAGE EXAMPlE: UNIGENE

require(org.Hs.eg.db)

unigene <- toTable(org.Hs.egUNIGENE)

# extract 100 random unigene entries

id  <- unigene[sample(1:length(unigene[,2]),100),2]

id.type  <- "unigene"

res <- get.symbolIDs(id,id.type)

Benjamin

Upgrade and update R 2.15 to R 3.0 in Debian Wheezy

Following the instructions from CRAN, you need to add the R backports in your source list.

FIRST PART: ADD R BACKPORTS: 

First, open a Terminal and open the sources.list file:

$ gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Then, add these lines at the bottom of the file (Note, I use the Revolution Analytics Dallas, TX server, but this can be easily changed taking a look here for the mirrors):

## R BACKPORTS FOR WHEEZY
deb http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/
#deb-src http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/

SECOND PART: RENAME THE R PACKAGES FOLDER:

There's a folder where R uses to store the packages we download, just rename it to the current version of R. For example, mine was "2.15" and then I just renamed it to "3.0" and was inside this path:

Before:

/home/benjamin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.15

After:

/home/benjamin/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.0

Remember that some packages also needs to install some files in folders that belongs to the root, so, I would recommend to open R in sudo mode (only if you're sure about what you're doing :P) just by executing R this way: "sudo R" and then, in the R console type :

update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE, ask=FALSE)

THIRD PART: SECURE APT:

The Debian backports archives on CRAN are signed with the key ID 381BA480, to add them, in a Terminal prompt type:

gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 381BA480
gpg -a --export 381BA480 > jranke_cran.asc
sudo  apt-key add jranke_cran.asc

FOURTH PART: UPDATE AND UPGRADE R:

Save the file and you can either enter to Synaptic, update the packages list and then just upgrade the packages or in a terminal type:


sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

And that's all.

Benjamin