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octad.db

Open Cancer TherApeutic Discovery (OCTAD) database

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 1.14.0

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Open Cancer TherApeutic Discovery (OCTAD) package implies sRGES approach for the drug discovery. The essential idea is to identify drugs that reverse the gene expression signature of a disease by tamping down over-expressed genes and stimulating weakly expressed ones. The following package contains all required precomputed data for whole OCTAD pipeline computation.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.octad.db

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("octad.db")

Details

MaintainerE. Chekalin <eygen.chekalin@gmail.com>
AuthorE. Chekalin [aut, cre], S. Paithankar [aut], B. Zeng [aut], B. Glicksberg [ctb], P. Newbury [ctb], J. Xing [ctb], K. Liu [ctb], A. Wen [ctb], D. Joseph [ctb], B. Chen [aut]
LicenseArtistic-2.0
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsCancerData, ExperimentData, ExperimentHub, ExpressionData, SequencingData
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/octad.db/

Citation

From within R, enter citation("octad.db"):

E. Chekalin, S. Paithankar, B. Zeng, B. Chen. octad.db: Open Cancer TherApeutic Discovery (OCTAD) database. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.octad.db, R package version 1.14.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/octad.db.

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

Download

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

Source packageoctad.db_1.14.0.tar.gz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 4.2.0), ExperimentHub

Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): octad