Get analyses behind Ensembl databases

Source: R/analysis.R

This function retrieves a table of analyses involved in the generation of data for the different Ensembl databases.

get_analyses(
  species_name,
  verbose = FALSE,
  warnings = TRUE,
  progress_bar = TRUE
)

Arguments

species_name

The species name, i.e., the scientific name, all letters lowercase and space replaced by underscore. Examples: 'homo_sapiens' (human), 'ovis_aries' (Domestic sheep) or 'capra_hircus' (Goat).
verbose

Whether to be verbose about the http requests and respective responses' status.
warnings

Whether to show warnings.
progress_bar

Whether to show a progress bar.

Value

A tibble of 3 variables:

species_name

Ensembl species name: this is the name used internally by Ensembl to uniquely identify a species by name. It is the scientific name but formatted without capitalisation and spacing converted with an underscore, e.g., 'homo_sapiens'.

database

Ensembl database. Typically one of 'core', 'rnaseq', 'cdna', 'funcgen' and 'otherfeatures'.

analysis

Analysis.