compendiumdb (version 1.0.3)

GSEinDB: Retrieve information about a GSE loaded in the compendium database

Description

Retrieve information about GEO series (GSE) records present in the compendium database

Usage

GSEinDB(con, GSEid = NULL)

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 vector specifying the GSE ID(s). The default value is NULL, in which case the function returns an overview of all GSEs present in the compendium database.

Value

An object of class data.frame consisting of ten columns: i) ID of the record in the compendium database, ii) GSE ID, iii) educated guess on the experimental design of the experiment, iv) GPL ID, v) number of samples, vi) user-specified tag for the experiment, (see tagExperiment), vii) NCBI taxonomy ID, viii) corresponding organism name, ix) GDS ID and x) date and time on which the data was loaded in the database

See Also

GDSforGSE, GSEforGPL, tagExperiment

Examples

 ## Not run: 
#   conn <- connectDatabase(user="usrname",password="passwd",dbname="compendium")
#   GSEinDB(conn,"GSE1657")
#  ## End(Not run)