extractSentences: Method to obtain the sentences that support a gene-disease...

In psygenet2r: psygenet2r - An R package for querying PsyGeNET and to perform comorbidity studies in psychiatric disorders

Description

PsyGeNET contains a list of sentences that support a gene-disease association from public literature. The internal table of a DataGeNET.Psy object contains this information. The method extractSentences allows to extract those sentences that support a gene-disease association given a DataGeNET.Psy object and a disorder of interest.

Usage

extractSentences(object, disorder, verbose)

## S4 method for signature 'DataGeNET.Psy'
extractSentences(object, disorder, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

object	Object of class DataGeNET.Psy.
disorder	The disorder of interest. Only those sentences supporting a gene-disease association with this specific disorder will be extracted. Disorder must be provided by using "Disease Id" or "Disease Name". The "Disease Id" can be provided with or without the "uml" tag. Example of a "Disease Name": "schizophrenia"; Example of a "Disease Id": "umls:C0036341", that is equivalent of using "C0036341".
verbose	If set to TRUE informative messages are show.

Value

A data frame showing the sentences.

Functions

• extractSentences,DataGeNET.Psy-method: Get sentences or evidences

Examples

data(qr)
extractSentences(qr, "Depression")

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