utils-geneset: Gene set utilities
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Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Utility functions to control the behavior of the GeneSetTable.

.getIdentifierType()

.setIdentifierType(value)

.getOrganism()

.setOrganism(value)

.getGeneSetCommands(collection, mode)

.setGeneSetCommands(value)

value

For .setIdentifierType and .setOrganism, a string containing the type of identifier or organism package to use.

For .setGeneSetCommands, a named list containing two character vectors, see Details.

collection

String specifying the gene set collection.

mode

String specifying the mode of operation for the returned commands.

By default, .getGeneSetCommands will extract GO and KEGG terms. The organism and identifier type relates to the manner in which this default extraction is performed.

Users can add their own gene set collections by supplying a named list to .setGeneSetCommands. Each element of the list should be a named character vector of length two, with names "show" and "extract" - see the return value for what these are. The names of the list should be unique and will be used in the GeneSetTable interface.

Alternatively, any element of the list may be NULL, in which case it is excluded from the interface. This is useful for setting, e.g., GO=NULL to ignore the in-built GO terms.

.getIdentifierType will return the identifier type to use, defaulting to "ENTREZID".

.getOrganism will return the organism package to use, defaulting "org.Hs.eg.db".

.getGeneSetCommands will return:

If mode="show", a string containing R commands that create tab, a data.frame of all gene sets for a given collection.
If mode="extract", a format string containing R commands that (after formatting) create selected, a character vector of gene identities for the selected gene set. This format string should accept one string argument corresponding to the deparsed name of the gene set.

Each of the setter functions will set the corresponding option and return NULL, invisibly.

Aaron Lun

GeneSetTable, where these functions have their effect.

.setIdentifierType("ENSEMBLID")
.getIdentifierType()

.setOrganism("org.Mm.eg.db")
.getOrganism()

.getGeneSetCommands("GO", "show")
.getGeneSetCommands("GO", "extract")

.setGeneSetCommands(
    list(AaronRandomCollection=
        c(
            show='tab <- some_function_to_list_my_gene_sets()',
            extract='selected <- some_function_to_get_one_gene_set(%s)'
        )
    )
)

.getGeneSetCommands("AaronRandomCollection", "show")
.getGeneSetCommands("AaronRandomCollection", "extract")