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Retrieve detailed gene descriptions

Given a list of gene IDs, how do you retrieve the gene description, summary and other detailed information in R?
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Human Cell Atlas - Data availability

A news item from 2017-10-18 on the website of the Human Cell Atlas states: In addition, the consortium today also announced the impending release of gene expression profiles from the first one ...
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Missing data mappings in mygene.info while trying to convert Genes Ensembl Ids to Entrez Ids

I need to convert a lot of Ensembl Ids to the relative counterpart in Entrez (e.g., ENSG00000157764 > 673). I found mygene.info ...
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Get a comprehensive list of virulence factors for certain or all pathogens?

Is there a database with all known proteins/genes of specific pathogens such as Staph aureus and annotated whether it is a known virulence or resistance factor that idealy can be downloaded in table ...
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How to identify genes from a genome assembly of C. Elegans?

I have two full genome assemblies for C. Elegans samples collected from two different geographical areas that I found on WormBase. These are in fasta format. I want to go gene-by-gene and compare the ...
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