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\name{organism}
\alias{organism}
\alias{organism,character-method}
\title{Convenience function for getting the organism from an object or package}
\description{
The most basic organism method just takes a character string (which
represents a particular annotation package) and returns the organism
that said package is based upon.
}
\usage{
organism(object)
}
\arguments{
\item{object}{a character string that names a package}
}
\value{
The name of the organism used for this package or object
}
\author{Marc Carlson}
\examples{
require(hgu95av2.db)
## get the organism for this annotation package
organism("hgu95av2")
## get the organism this object refers to
## (for a ChromLocation object)
z <- buildChromLocation("hgu95av2")
organism(z)
}
\keyword{manip}
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