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GeneExpressionSignature

Gene Expression Signature based Similarity Metric

Bioconductor version: 3.24 · Package version: 1.59.0

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This package gives the implementations of the gene expression signature and its distance to each. Gene expression signature is represented as a list of genes whose expression is correlated with a biological state of interest. And its distance is defined using a nonparametric, rank-based pattern-matching strategy based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic. Gene expression signature and its distance can be used to detect similarities among the signatures of drugs, diseases, and biological states of interest.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.GeneExpressionSignature

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("GeneExpressionSignature")

Details

MaintainerYang Cao <yiluheihei@gmail.com>
AuthorYang Cao [aut, cre], Fei Li [ctb], Lu Han [ctb]
LicenseGPL-2
URLhttps://github.com/yiluheihei/GeneExpressionSignature
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/yiluheihei/GeneExpressionSignature/issues/
Source branchdevel
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsGeneExpression, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/GeneExpressionSignature/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("GeneExpressionSignature"):

Yang Cao. GeneExpressionSignature: Gene Expression Signature based Similarity Metric. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.GeneExpressionSignature, R package version 1.59.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/GeneExpressionSignature.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

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

Source packageGeneExpressionSignature_1.59.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)GeneExpressionSignature_1.59.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)GeneExpressionSignature_1.59.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)GeneExpressionSignature_1.59.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.0)

Imports: Biobase, stats, methods

Suggests: apcluster, GEOquery, knitr, rmarkdown, BiocStyle