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OncoScore

A tool to identify potentially oncogenic genes

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.40.0

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

OncoScore is a tool to measure the association of genes to cancer based on citation frequencies in biomedical literature. The score is evaluated from PubMed literature by dynamically updatable web queries.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.OncoScore

Installation

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("OncoScore")

Details

MaintainerLuca De Sano <luca.desano@gmail.com>
AuthorLuca De Sano [cre, aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9618-3774>), Carlo Gambacorti Passerini [ctb], Rocco Piazza [ctb], Daniele Ramazzotti [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6087-2666>), Roberta Spinelli [ctb]
Licensefile LICENSE
URLhttps://github.com/danro9685/OncoScore
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/danro9685/OncoScore
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsBiomedicalInformatics, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/OncoScore/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("OncoScore"):

Luca De Sano, Daniele Ramazzotti. OncoScore: A tool to identify potentially oncogenic genes. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.OncoScore, R package version 1.40.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/OncoScore.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Documentation

Download

Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packageOncoScore_1.40.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)OncoScore_1.40.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)OncoScore_1.40.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)OncoScore_1.40.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: biomaRt, grDevices, graphics, utils, methods

Suggests: BiocGenerics, BiocStyle, knitr, testthat