load: load

Description Usage Value Author(s)

Description

Downloads and returns the STRING network (the network is set also in the graph variable of the STRING_db object).

It makes use of the variables: "backgroundV" vector containing STRING identifiers to be used as background (i.e. the STRING network loaded will contain only the proteins that are present also in this vector) "score_threshold" STRING combined score threshold (the network loaded contains only interactions having a combined score greater than this threshold)

Usage

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## S4 method for signature 'STRINGdb'
load()

Value

STRING network (i.e. an iGraph object. For info look to http://igraph.sourceforge.net)

Author(s)

Andrea Franceschini


STRINGdb documentation built on March 10, 2021, 2 a.m.