convertid - Convert Gene IDs Between Each Other and Fetch Annotations from
Biomart
Gene Symbols or Ensembl Gene IDs are converted using the
Bimap interface in 'AnnotationDbi' in convertId2() for the most
common use cases in data analysis. The main function in the
package is convert.bm() which queries BioMart using the full
capacity of the API provided through the 'biomaRt' package.
Presets and defaults are provided for convenience but all
"marts", "filters" and "attributes" can be set by the user.
Function convert.alias() converts Gene Symbols to Aliases and
vice versa and function likely_symbol() attempts to determine
the most likely current Gene Symbol.