\name{mirbaseFAMILY}
\alias{mirbaseFAMILY}

\title{MicroRNA IDs to Family}

\description{
  mirbaseFAMILY is an R object that provides mappings between
  microRNA identifiers and their family.
}

\details{
  Each microRNA identifier maps to a character string which is the
  miRNA gene family ID.
  The name of the returned value is the family name.

  Source: miRBase (Version: 16.0)  
  ftp://mirbase.org/pub/mirbase/CURRENT/  
  With a date stamp from the source of: 10 Sep 2010
}

\examples{
    x <- mirbaseFAMILY
    # first 3 microRNA with a family.
    mget(mappedkeys(x)[1:3], x)
}

\keyword{data}