surveyReferences: Survey reference metadata

In LTLA/CellTypeReferences: Index of Reference Cell Type Datasets

Survey reference metadata

Description

Metadata survey for all available reference datasets in the celldex package.

Usage

surveyReferences(cache = cacheDirectory(), overwrite = FALSE, latest = TRUE)

Arguments

cache, overwrite	Arguments to pass to fetchMetadataDatabase.
latest	Whether to only consider the latest version of each dataset.

Details

The returned DataFrame contains the usual suspects like the title and description for each dataset, the number of samples and types of labels, the organisms and genome builds involved, and so on. More details can be found in the Bioconductor metadata schema at https://github.com/ArtifactDB/bioconductor-metadata-index.

Value

A DataFrame where each row corresponds to a dataset, containing various columns of metadata. Some columns may be lists to capture 1:many mappings.

Author(s)

Aaron Lun

See Also

searchReferences, to search on the metadata for specific datasets.

Examples

surveyReferences()

LTLA/CellTypeReferences documentation built on June 1, 2024, 12:12 p.m.