MAMA (version 1.0.2)

patternMatch: Function to count soft pattern matches

Description

Funtion counts number of observed soft matches in meta-analysis

Usage

patternMatch(X.discret, unique.pat)

Arguments

X.discret

Binary matrix, with rows corresponding to genes, columns to studies and 1 to selected (significant) genes in studies

unique.pat

Vector of binary strings - patterns

Value

• Numeric vector of number of soft pattern matches for each pattern.

References

Yang, X., Bentink, S. a Spang, R. 2005, Detecting Common Gene Expression Patterns in Multiple Cancer Outcome Entities, Biomedical Microdevices, vol.7:3

Examples

## The function is currently defined as
A<-matrix(c(1,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1), ncol=3, nrow=10)
uni<-c("011","101","110","111")
patternMatch(A,uni)