NCI60cells: Cell Line descriptions in the NCI-60 dataset

In dtkaplan/DataComputing: Functions and Data for the Data Computing book

Description

NCI60cells gives information about the cell-line tissue and the person from whom the sample was collected.

Usage

data("NCI60cells")

Format

A data frame with 60 observations on the following 12 variables.

cellLine

Name of the cell line

tissue

The cancer tissue from which the cell line originated Breast CNS Colon Leukemia Melanoma Non-Small Cell Lung Ovarian Prostate Renal

age

of the donor

sex

of the donor

ploidy

the number of sets of chromosomes in the cell

prior.treatment

treatment of the donor

epithelial

is the cell of epithelial origin

histology

p53

a factor with levels ? MT WT

mdr

a numeric vector

source

information about where the cells were collected from

doublingtime

a numeric vector

Details

These are the cell-line descriptions corresponding to the columns in the NCI60 expression dataset.

See Also

NCI60

Examples

data(NCI60cells)

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