Current genome version

Obtain the latest release version from various genome annotation sources.

currentEnsemblVersion()

currentGencodeVersion(organism = c("Homo sapiens", "Mus musculus"))

currentRefSeqVersion()

currentFlyBaseVersion(dmel = FALSE)

currentWormBaseVersion()

Arguments

organism	character(1). Full Latin organism name (e.g. "Homo sapiens").
dmel	logical(1). Return Drosophila melanogaster genome release version.

Value

character(1) or integer(1) when possible. Release version.

Note

Updated 2020-12-09.

See also

Refer to the koopa package for Bash shell variants.

Examples

## Protect against Ensembl timeouts causing build checks to fail.
## > if (goalie::hasInternet(url = "ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/")) {
## >     currentEnsemblVersion()
## > }