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biomartr

Genomic Data Retrieval

v1.0.7 · Dec 2, 2023 · GPL-2

Description

Perform large scale genomic data retrieval and functional annotation retrieval. This package aims to provide users with a standardized way to automate genome, proteome, 'RNA', coding sequence ('CDS'), 'GFF', and metagenome retrieval from 'NCBI RefSeq', 'NCBI Genbank', 'ENSEMBL', and 'UniProt' databases. Furthermore, an interface to the 'BioMart' database (Smedley et al. (2009) <doi:10.1186/1471-2164-10-22>) allows users to retrieve functional annotation for genomic loci. In addition, users can download entire databases such as 'NCBI RefSeq' (Pruitt et al. (2007) <doi:10.1093/nar/gkl842>), 'NCBI nr', 'NCBI nt', 'NCBI Genbank' (Benson et al. (2013) <doi:10.1093/nar/gks1195>), etc. with only one command.

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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 21, 2026
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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies biomaRt Biostrings curl tibble jsonlite data.table (>= 1.9.4) dplyr readr downloader (>= 0.3) RCurl XML httr stringr purrr R.utils +3 more dependencies biomartr

Version History

22 tracked
new 1.0.7 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.7 ← 1.0.6 diff Dec 1, 2023
updated 1.0.6 ← 1.0.5 diff Oct 23, 2023
updated 1.0.5 ← 1.0.4 diff Oct 3, 2023
updated 1.0.4 ← 1.0.3 diff Jun 19, 2023
updated 1.0.3 ← 1.0.2 diff May 6, 2023
updated 1.0.2 ← 0.9.2 diff Feb 22, 2022
updated 0.9.2 ← 0.9.1 diff Jan 10, 2020
updated 0.9.1 ← 0.9.0 diff Dec 9, 2019
updated 0.9.0 ← 0.8.0 diff May 20, 2019
updated 0.8.0 ← 0.7.0 diff Jun 26, 2018
updated 0.7.0 ← 0.5.2 diff Jan 2, 2018
updated 0.5.2 ← 0.5.1 diff Sep 19, 2017
updated 0.5.1 ← 0.4.0 diff May 27, 2017
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Mar 13, 2017