[Bioc-devel] mapIds methods for ExpressionSet and SummarizedExperiment

Hi Ludwig --

It would be really great to see what you've put together; can you make your code available somewhere, maybe via github?

I think the facilities already in Bioconductor include:

- select() and the OrganismDb (e.g., Homo.sapiens) packages

- (Recently introduced, in bioc-devel) GenomicFeatures::mapIds()

- GSEABase mapIdentifiers()

- The AnnotationFuncs package (some of this functionality might be redundant with select() / mapIds(); maybe your idea is a more refined version of this?

- biomaRt, including the relatively under-known use of select() with mart objects.

I think a particularly valuable development (initial implementation in GenomicFeatures::mapIds()) is transparent mapping to / from genomic ranges.

The original intention of the annotation() slot in ExpressionSet was to include the microarray chip identifier, so that one references this when translating from probeset to gene identifiers.

Martin
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Subject: [Bioc-devel] mapIds methods for ExpressionSet and      SummarizedExperiment

Dear Bioc Team,

I have implemented mapIds methods mapping featureNames (ExpressionSet) and
rownames (SummarizedExperiment) between major gene ID types such as
ENSEMBL and ENTREZ by passing that on AnnotationDbi::mapIds.

Given an ExpressionSet/SummarizedExperiment and an organism under
investigation such as 'Homo sapiens', the methods are checking whether the
corresponding org.db package is available, otherwise the package is
automatically installed and loaded.
Subsequently, the featureNames/rownames are mapped from the specified
from.id.type to the desired to.id.type, corresponding to keytypes of the
org.db package.
Options to deal with NA and duplicate mappings are also provided in order
to ensure that featureNames/rownames are unique after the mapping.

Advantage is that end users do not require knowledge of the Bioc
annotation infrastructure, but rather just need to provide the organism
under investigation in a convenient format also for non-Biocs.

I have not found something similar in existing packages and I am wondering
whether this could be something of general interest.

Best,
Ludwig

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