Retrieve ENSEMBL info file — getENSEMBLInfo • biomartr
Description: Retrieve species and genome information from http://rest.ensembl.org/info/species?content-type=application/json/.

# Retrieve ENSEMBL info file

Source: `R/getENSEMBLInfo.R`
`getENSEMBLInfo.Rd`

Retrieve species and genome information from http://rest.ensembl.org/info/species?content-type=application/json/.

    getENSEMBLInfo(update = TRUE)

## Arguments

update

  logical, default TRUE. Update cached list, if FALSE use existing (if it exists)

## Value

a tibble table storing info for all available ENSEMBL divisions.

## See also

`ensembl_divisions`, `get.ensembl.info`, `getKingdomAssemblySummary`

## Author

Hajk-Georg Drost

## Examples

    if (FALSE) {
    # look at available divisions
    ensembl_divisions()
    # retrieve information for all ENSEMBL divisions at once
    test <- getENSEMBLInfo()
    test
    # retrieve information for a particular ENSEMBL division (e.g. EnsemblVertebrates)
    test_vertebrates <- get.ensembl.info(update = TRUE, division = "EnsemblVertebrates")
    test_vertebrates
    }