Drugs: Drugs
In winnenbr/GEA: Generalized Enrichment Analysis

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

View source: R/Data.R

This function creates a data table with the drug candidates extracted from MEDLINE

1	Drugs(drug_filename, classLevel = FALSE)

`drug_filename`	The name of the flat file containing the drug specific information extracted from MEDLINE
`classLevel`	If TRUE, represent drugs at the drug class level, e.g. "bupivacaine" as "amides"

An object containing for drug candidates: names, ATC codes, and MEDLINE Ids for papers mentioning the drugs potentially in the context of adverse events

{

   drugs <- Drugs("drugs_ATC_MEDLINE_360k.txt")
   
   #will return the PubMed IDs for the 758 papers in MEDLINE mentioning the drug bupivacaine together with an adverse event
   drugs[name=="bupivacaine",]$PMID
    
}