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TCGAretriever (version 1.3)

TCGAretriever-package: Retrieve Genomic and Clinical Data from TCGA

Description

The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) is a program aimed at improving our understanding of Cancer Biology. Several TCGA Datasets are available online. TCGAretriever helps accessing and downloading TCGA data via the cBioPortal API. Features of TCGAretriever are: 1) it is simple and works as promised, unlike some other available packages; 2) it is tailored for downloading large volumes of data.

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References

Reference 1: http://www.biotechworld.it/bioinf/2016/07/11/tcga-data-via-tcgaretriever/ Reference 2: http://www.cbioportal.org/web_api.jsp Reference 3: http://cancergenome.nih.gov/abouttcga/