NCI60cells: Cell Line descriptions in the NCI-60 dataset

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Cell Line descriptions in the NCI-60 dataset

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 from NCI-60 human tumor cell lines screen

tissue

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

age

of the cell line donor

sex

of the cell line 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

status of p53 protein believed to help regulate gene expression: mutated "MT", wild-type "WT", "?"

mdr

multidrug resistence (numeric)

source

information about where the cells were collected from

doublingtime

numeric

Details

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

See Also

'NCI60'

Examples

data(NCI60cells)
str(NCI60cells)

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