kangar00 (version 1.4.1)

pathway_info: An S4 class for an object assigning genes to pathways

Description

This function lists all genes formig a particular pathway. Start and end positions of these genes are extracted from the Ensemble database. The database is accessed via the R-package biomaRt.

Usage

pathway_info(x)
# S4 method for character
pathway_info(x)
# S4 method for pathway_info
show(object)
# S4 method for pathway_info
summary(object)

Value

A data.frame including as many rows as genes appear in the pathway. for each gene its name, the start and end point and the chromosome it lies on are given.

show Basic information on pathway_info object.

summary Summarized information on pathway_info object.

Arguments

x

A character identifying the pathway for which gene infomation should be extracted. Here KEGG IDs (format: 'hsa00100') are used.

object

An object of class pathway_info.

Slots

info

A data.frame including information on genes contained in pathways with columns 'pathway', 'gene_start', 'gene_end', 'chr' and 'gene'.

Author

Stefanie Friedrichs, Juliane Manitz

See Also

snp_info, get_anno

Examples

data(hsa04022_info) # pathway_info('hsa04020') 
show(hsa04022_info)
summary(hsa04022_info)