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KEGGgraph (version 1.30.0)

getDisplayName-methods: Get a character string as label for display

Description

In KGML files, 'graph' element has a 'name' attribute to store the displaying name of a node, which is straighforward for end users. For example, biologists have no idea about a node 'hsa:1432' but its display name 'MAPK14' helps them to link this node to their knowledge. This method extract DisplayName from graph objects for KEGGNode and graph, where the method for graph returns the display names of its nodes.

Arguments

Methods

object = "KEGGNode"
An object of KEGGNode-class
object = "graph"
A KEGG graph object

References

KGML Document Manual http://www.genome.jp/kegg/docs/xml/

Examples

Run this code
sfile <- system.file("extdata/hsa04010.xml",package="KEGGgraph")
pathway <- parseKGML(sfile)

nodes <- nodes(pathway)
subnodes <- nodes[10:15]

sapply(subnodes, getDisplayName)
## compare them with getName, one 'displayName' may correspond to many paralogues
sapply(subnodes, getName)

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