GEOsearch (version 1.0.0)

TermAlias: TermAlias

Description

Search Alias of a Term

Usage

TermAlias(searchterm, allspecies = c("Human", "Mouse"), mincount = 5)

Arguments

searchterm

A character value specifying the term being searched. Words should be separated by space.

allspecies

A character vector specifying the species in which the alias of gene names will be searched for. Available species: Anopheles,Arabidopsis,Bovine,Worm,Canine,Fly,Zebrafish,E coli strain K12,E coli strain Sakai,Chicken,Human,Mouse,Rhesus,Malaria,Chimp,Rat,Yeast,Pig,Xenopus

mincount

An integer value specifying the minimum number of appearance in the GEO database for the alias to be retained. If an alias has too few appearance it may not be of great interest.

Value

A character vector of combinatory results of alias.

Details

This function first picks gene names from the searh term. It then searches alias for all the gene names contained in the search term. It next queries GEO and retain alias that appear frequently enough in GEO database. Finally it returns a combinatory results of retained alias.

Examples

TermAlias("Oct4 RNA-seq")

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