<p>I think you could use the <a href="https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MeSH.db" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MESH.db</a> package in Bioconductor to annotate your genes. I have never used, but you should be able to do something like:</p>

<pre><code>library("MeSH.db")
select(MeSH.db, keys = myGenes, keytype = "ENTREZ", columns = "MESH")
</code></pre>

<p>It depends on the <a href="https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.MeSHDbi" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MeSHDbi</a> package from which you could retrieve other data form that database if needed</p>

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<p>Is there an alternative to mesh2gene for linking MeSH terms to genes?</p>

<p>The http://www.ncibi.org/gene2mesh.html site appears to be down for months now (click on "Launch Gene2MeSH via gene2mesh.ncibi.org") and I've been unable to find an alternative so far...</p>

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Linking of MeSH terms and genes
# Linking of MeSH terms and genes

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-04)

Is there an alternative to mesh2gene for linking MeSH terms to genes?

The http://www.ncibi.org/gene2mesh.html site appears to be down for months now (click on "Launch Gene2MeSH via gene2mesh.ncibi.org") and I've been unable to find an alternative so far...

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### Answer by username_1 on 2018-12-05. Score: 2

I think you could use the MESH.db package in Bioconductor to annotate your genes. I have never used, but you should be able to do something like:
library("MeSH.db")
select(MeSH.db, keys = myGenes, keytype = "ENTREZ", columns = "MESH")

It depends on the MeSHDbi package from which you could retrieve other data form that database if needed


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