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gesel

This is the development version of gesel; to use it, please install the devel version of Bioconductor.

Search for Interesting Gene Sets


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

Query the gesel indices to identify interesting gene sets. Users can test for enrichment in their own list of genes and/or search by text in the set names or descriptions. The indices can be hosted remotely or on a local filesystem.

Author: Aaron Lun [aut, cre] ORCID iD ORCID: 0000-0002-3564-4813

Maintainer: Aaron Lun <infinite.monkeys.with.keyboards at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("gesel")):
Seminal Bioconductor project articles:

Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M (2015). "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nature Methods, 12(2), 115–121. doi:10.1038/nmeth.3252.

Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JYH, Zhang J (2004). "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biology, 5(10), R80. doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:


if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("gesel")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("gesel")
Working with the Gesel database HTML R Script
Reference Manual PDF
NEWS Text
LICENSE Text

Details

biocViews DataImport, GeneSetEnrichment, Pathways, Software
Version 0.99.5
In Bioconductor since BioC 3.24 (R-4.6)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends
Imports utils, methods, rappdirs, httr2, Rcpp
System Requirements
URL https://github.com/gesel-inc/gesel-R
Bug Reports https://github.com/gesel-inc/gesel-R/issues
See More
Suggests BiocStyle, knitr, testthat, rmarkdown, S4Vectors, IRanges
Linking To assorthead, Rcpp
Enhances
Depends On Me
Imports Me
Suggests Me
Links To Me
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Package Archives

Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package gesel_0.99.5.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) gesel_0.99.5.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) gesel_0.99.5.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) gesel_0.99.5.tgz
Source Repository git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/gesel
Source Repository (Developer Access) git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/gesel
Bioc Package Browser https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/gesel/
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/gesel/
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