miRNAmeConverter (version 1.0.2)

assessVersion: Assess miRBase version

Description

This function detects the most likely miRBase version of a given miRNA set.

Usage

assessVersion(this, miRNAs, verbose = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'MiRNANameConverter':
assessVersion(this, miRNAs, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

this

Object of class 'MiRNANameConverter'

miRNAs

A character vector of miRNA names

verbose

A boolean to either show more (TRUE) or less information (FALSE)

Value

• A data frame with two columns: version and frequency (decreasing order by frequency, version) + version: miRBase version + frequency: the number of valid miRNAs that could be assigned to the version respectively

Methods (by class)

• MiRNANameConverter: Method for assessing the most likely miRBase version that a given set of miRNA names is from.

Details

This function takes a set of miRNA names and detects the most likely miRBase version of this given set of 'miRNAs'. First all miRNAs will be checked for validity (if they are actual miRNA names checkMiRNAName and the set that passes the check will be further processed.

Examples

nc = MiRNANameConverter(); # Instance of class 'MiRNANameConverter'
assessVersion(nc, miRNAs = c("hsa-miR-140", "hsa-miR-125a"))