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parse GMT files: Venn Euler Diagramm

Description

Parses a GMT file as downloadable from MSigDB (presented in Subramanian et al.) and returns a list of gene sets.

Usage

parseGmt(file)

Value

A named list of gene sets.

Arguments

file

A file name.

Details

Parses a GMT file and returns a list of gene sets. Each list element named according to the included gene set. The gene set files can be downloaded from http://www.broadinstitute.org/gsea/msigdb.

References

Subramanian, A., Tamayo, P., Mootha, V. K., Mukherjee, S., Ebert, B. L., Gillette, M. A., Paulovich, A., Pomeroy, S. L., Golub, T. R., Lander, E. S., Mesirov, J. P. (2005) Gene set enrichment analysis: a knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 102, 15545--15550.

See Also

geneSetAnalysis, predefinedAnalyses, gsAnalysis