compendiumdb (version 1.0.3)

GDSforGSE: Retrieve information about a GDS for a given GSE

Description

Retrieve information about the GDS(s) corresponding to given GSE ID

Usage

GDSforGSE(con, GSEid)

Arguments

con

list containing a connection object specifying the user name and password to connect or interact with the compendium database (see connectDatabase)

GSEid

character string specifying the GSE ID

Value

An object of class data.frame returned by GSEinDB giving detailed information on the corresponding GDS(s).

Details

The GEO staff manually curates part of the records in GEO and reassembles biologically and statistically comparable records into a GEO dataset (GDS). This function allows the user to check if the series record (GSE) has been manually curated by GEO and has a corresponding GDS ID.

See Also

GSEinDB

Examples

 ## Not run: 
#   conn <- connectDatabase(user="usrname",password="passwd",dbname="compendium")
#   # Retrieve information about GDSs corresponding to GSE1657
#   GDSforGSE(conn,c("GSE1657"))
#  ## End(Not run)