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