biomaRt

An intro to biomaRt

Or “How to annotate Hugo Symbol and Entrez ID to ensembl ID, fetch the location of the genes and associated gene ontologies and dbSNPs using biomaRt.” biomaRt is a Bioconductor package that provides an R interface to the HGNC BioMart server. It makes it possible to access and query a large amount of data and resources from ensembl.