compendiumdb (version 1.0.3)

tagExperiment: Tag an experiment with text labels

Description

Tag an experiment with text labels

Usage

tagExperiment(con, GSEid, tag)

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

tag

character string specifying the text labels with which to tag the GSE specified by GSEid

Details

This function updates the value of the tag record for the specified GSE ID in the compendium database; see the variable tagExperiment of the data frame returned by the link{GSEinDB} function. Adding tags makes it easy to search for specific experiments.

See Also

GSEinDB

Examples

 ## Not run: 
#   conn <- connectDatabase(user="usrname",password="passwd",dbname="compendium")
#   tagExperiment(conn,"GSE23183","HIV infection")
#   GSEinDB(con=conn,"GSE23183")
#  ## End(Not run)