loadGMT: Load a Gene Matrix Transposed formatted file
In tempoR: Characterizing Temporal Dysregulation

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

loadGMT loads a Gene Matrix Transposed formatted file from a text file to the data structure used by TEMPO. In the .gmt format, each row represents a gene set, with tab delimited columns. The first column is a gene set name, the second columns and optional description, and the remaining columns contain gene ids for each gene in the gene set. The format is also described at the BROAD site.

1	loadGMT(target)

target

a string indicating the location of the .gmt file

a list indexed by gene set name of lists of gene ids

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# An example collection of gene sets is included in the package in .gmt format
exampleGeneSetsPath = file.path(path.package("tempoR"),"dflatExample.gmt")
exampleGeneSets = loadGMT(exampleGeneSetsPath)