mirtarbase: miRTarBase (MTI) database package.

In jotsetung/mirtarbase: mirtarbase: a database of validated miRNA target gene interactions

Description

This package contains the miRNA-target gene interactions (MTI) provided by the miRTarBase.

Usage

  mirtarbase

  listMirtarbaseReleases()

Details

mirtarbase

The MirtarbaseDb object representing the connection to the (internal) miRTarbase database. The mirtarbase always links to the most recent miRTarbase release provided by the package (use listMirtarbaseReleases function to list all provided releases).

listMirtarbaseReleases

Function to list all miRTarbase releases provided by the package. Returns a data.frame listing the variable name and the corresponding version. The mirtarbase variable always links to the most recent release.

Author(s)

Johannes Rainer

See Also

mtis, listSupportTypes, listSpecies

Examples

## Print some summary information for the database:
mirtarbase

## List all releases that are provided.
listMirtarbaseReleases()

## what type of object did we get?
class(mirtarbase)

## list all available evidence support types from the database
listSupportTypes(mirtarbase)

## list all species (for target genes):
listSpecies(mirtarbase)

jotsetung/mirtarbase documentation built on May 19, 2019, 9:42 p.m.