\S4method{load}{STRINGdb}


Downloads and returns the STRING network (the network is set also in the graph variable of the STRING_db object).<p></p><p>  
It makes use of the variables:
    "backgroundV"         vector containing STRING identifiers to be used as background 
                            (i.e. the STRING network loaded will contain only the proteins that are present also in this vector)
    "score_threshold"     STRING combined score threshold (the network loaded contains only interactions having a combined score greater than this threshold)
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load

The STRINGdb package provides a R interface to the STRING protein-protein interactions database (http://www.string-db.org).

Alexander Roth

STRINGdb

STRINGdb (Search Tool for the Retrieval of Interacting proteins database)

load function

Downloads and returns the STRING network (the network is set also in the graph variable of the STRING_db object).

  
It makes use of the variables:
    "backgroundV"         vector containing STRING identifiers to be used as background 
                            (i.e. the STRING network loaded will contain only the proteins that are present also in this vector)
    "score_threshold"     STRING combined score threshold (the network loaded contains only interactions having a combined score greater than this threshold)

load: load

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