readGMT: readGMT
In RITAN: Rapid Integration of Term Annotation and Network resources

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Created for simplification of reading .gmt files into RITAN.

1	readGMT(f = NA)

`f`	GMT file name. Please provide a full path if the file is not in the current working directory.

A list() where the name of each entry is the term (first column of GMT file) and the value is a chr array of genes associated with the term.

# Make an example list() to show the GMT format
set <- list( term1=c('gene_name1','gene_name2'),
             term2=c('gene_name3','gene_name4','gene_name5') )
## Not run: 
# Write a GMT file for "set"
writeGMT( set, 'my_file.gmt' )

# Reading GMT files
geneset <- readGMT( 'my_file.gmt' )

# GMT files are available from multiple sources including http://software.broadinstitute.org/gsea/msigdb/

## End(Not run)