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Mart class and methods

show(<Mart>)
Class Mart
keys(<Mart>) keytypes(<Mart>) columns(<Mart>) select(<Mart>)
Retrieve information from the BioMart databases

Create or update Mart objects

listMarts()
lists the available BioMart databases
listEnsembl() listEnsemblGenomes()
lists the available BioMart databases hosted by Ensembl
listEnsemblArchives()
Lists the available archived versions of Ensembl
useDataset()
Select a dataset to use and updates Mart object
useEnsembl() useEnsemblGenomes()
Connects to the selected BioMart database and dataset hosted by Ensembl
useMart()
Connects to the selected BioMart database and dataset

Extract data from BioMart databases

listAttributes() searchAttributes()
lists the attributes available in the selected dataset
attributePages()
Gives a summary of the attribute pages
listDatasets() searchDatasets()
List or search the datasets available in the selected BioMart database
listFilters() searchFilters()
List or search the filters available in the selected dataset
searchFilterOptions() listFilterOptions()
List or search the options available for a specified filter.
filterType()
Displays the filter type
getBM()
Retrieves information from the BioMart database
getGene()
Retrieves gene annotation information given a vector of identifiers
getHomologs()
List homologous genes between two species.
getLDS()
Retrieves information from two linked datasets
getSequence()
Retrieves sequences

Data export

exportFASTA()
Exports getSequence results to FASTA format

Network and cache utilities

setEnsemblSSL()
Save system specific SSL settings for contacting Ensembl
biomartCacheClear() biomartCacheInfo()
biomaRt result caching

Dataset

NP2009code()
Display the analysis code from the 2009 Nature protocols paper

Deprecated of Defunct functions

biomaRt-deprecated filterOptions searchFilterValues listFilterValues
Deprecated and defunct functions in package biomaRt