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ExpressionAtlas

Download datasets from EMBL-EBI Expression Atlas

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 2.4.0

This package is for searching for datasets in EMBL-EBI Expression Atlas, and downloading them into R for further analysis. Each Expression Atlas dataset is represented as a SimpleList object with one element per platform. Sequencing data is contained in a SummarizedExperiment object, while microarray data is contained in an ExpressionSet or MAList object.

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("ExpressionAtlas")

Details

MaintainerAnil Thanki <anilthanki@ebi.ac.uk>
AuthorMaria Keays [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2034-601X>), Pedro Madrigal [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-8199>), Anil Thanki [cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8941-444X>)
LicenseGPL (>= 3)
Downloads rank523
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
biocViewsArrayExpress, ExperimentData, ExpressionData, MicroarrayData, SequencingData, Software

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageExpressionAtlas_2.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)ExpressionAtlas_2.4.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)ExpressionAtlas_2.4.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)ExpressionAtlas_2.4.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), methods, Biobase, SummarizedExperiment, limma, S4Vectors, xml2, RCurl, jsonlite, BiocStyle

Imports: utils, XML, httr

Suggests: knitr, testthat, rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Suggests Me (1): spatialHeatmap