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meshes

MeSH Enrichment and Semantic analyses

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.38.0

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MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) is the NLM controlled vocabulary used to manually index articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terms were associated by Entrez Gene ID by three methods, gendoo, gene2pubmed and RBBH. This association is fundamental for enrichment and semantic analyses. meshes supports enrichment analysis (over-representation and gene set enrichment analysis) of gene list or whole expression profile. The semantic comparisons of MeSH terms provide quantitative ways to compute similarities between genes and gene groups. meshes implemented five methods proposed by Resnik, Schlicker, Jiang, Lin and Wang respectively and supports more than 70 species.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.meshes

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("meshes")

Details

MaintainerGuangchuang Yu <guangchuangyu@gmail.com>
AuthorGuangchuang Yu [aut, cre]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
URLhttps://yulab-smu.top/biomedical-knowledge-mining-book/
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/GuangchuangYu/meshes/issues
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsAnnotation, Clustering, MultipleComparison, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/meshes/

Citation

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

Guangchuang Yu. meshes: MeSH Enrichment and Semantic analyses. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.meshes, R package version 1.38.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/meshes.

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

Documentation

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Source packagemeshes_1.38.0.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)meshes_1.38.0.zip
macOS binary (arm64)meshes_1.38.0.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)meshes_1.38.0.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)

Imports: enrichit, gson, AnnotationDbi, GOSemSim (> 2.37.0), methods, utils, AnnotationHub, MeSHDbi, yulab.utils (>= 0.1.5)

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, prettydoc