download_ctd_genes: Function to download genes available in CTDbase

In isglobal-brge/CTDquerier: Package for CTDbase data query, visualization and downstream analysis

Function to download genes available in CTDbase

Description

This function download the "Gene vocabulary" file (CTD_genes.tsv.gz) from http://ctdbase.org/downloads.

Usage

download_ctd_genes(verbose = FALSE, ask = TRUE)

Arguments

verbose	(default FALSE) If set to TRUE is shows relevant information of each step.
ask	(default TRUE) If TRUE it asks the the persistent location must be used.

Details

The field included in the file (CTD_genes.tsv.gz) are:

1. GeneSymbol

2. GeneName

3. GeneID (NCBI Gene identifier)

4. AltGeneIDs (alternative NCBI Gene identifiers; '|'-delimited list)

5. Synonyms ('|'-delimited list)

6. BioGRIDIDs ('|'-delimited list)

7. PharmGKBIDs ('|'-delimited list)

8. UniprotIDs ('|'-delimited list)

Value

Passed name into filename argument if it could be download 1 otherwise.

Examples

download_ctd_genes()

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