Retrieve Gene Annotations using BSgenome

Question

[bioinfc37]

I have a matrix that consists of gene names. What is the most efficient method to retrieve the gene annotations using the BSgenome.Rnorvegicus.UCSC.rn5 package.

Example of matrix:

Oxtr
Ebf2
Ppp1r1a
Kcnc3

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

[mastal511]

Have a look at the Bioconductor AnnotationDbi package documentation, and a couple of the vignettes - Introduction to Bioconductor Annotation Packages, and the Reference Manual.

https://bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/html/AnnotationDbi.html