methylation: Methylation datasets from TCGA project

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Description

Package provides methylation (humanmethylation27) datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project for all cohorts types from http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/. Data were downloaded using RTCGA-package and contain snapshots for the date: 2015-11-01. The process is described here: http://rtcga.github.io/RTCGA/. Use cases, examples and information about datasets in RTCGA.data family can be found here: browseVignettes("RTCGA"). Methylation data format is explained here https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/TCGA/DNA+methylation. Converting RTCGA.methylation datasets from data.frames to Bioconductor classes is explained here convertTCGA.

Usage

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Details

browseVignettes("RTCGA")

Value

Data frames with methylation data.

Source

http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/

Examples

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browseVignettes("RTCGA")

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RTCGA/RTCGA.methylation documentation built on May 8, 2019, 7:35 a.m.