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Retrieve available groups for a kingdom of life (only available for NCBI RefSeq and NCBI Genbank)

Source: R/getGroups.R
getGroups.Rd

A short list of available groups for a kingdom of life.

Usage

getGroups(db = "refseq", kingdom)

Arguments

db

a character string specifying the database from which the genome shall be retrieved:

  • db = "refseq"

  • db = "genbank"

Default is db = "refseq".

kingdom

a character string specifying for which kingdom of life groups shall be retrieved. See getKingdoms for details.

See also

meta.retrieval, getGenome, getProteome, getCDS, getKingdoms

Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

# get possible kigdom names
getKingdoms(db = "refseq")
#> [1] "archaea"              "bacteria"             "fungi"               
#> [4] "invertebrate"         "plant"                "protozoa"            
#> [7] "vertebrate_mammalian" "vertebrate_other"     "viral"               
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# retrieve subgroups for vertebrate_mammalian available from refseq
getGroups(db = "refseq", kingdom = "vertebrate_mammalian")

# get possible kigdom names
getKingdoms(db = "genbank")
# retrieve subgroups for vertebrate_mammalian available from genbank
getGroups(db = "genbank", kingdom = "vertebrate_mammalian")
} # }