GSA (version 1.03.2)

GSA.read.gmt: Read in a gene set collection from a .gmt file

Description

Read in a gene set collection from a .gmt file

Usage

GSA.read.gmt(filename)

Arguments

filename

The name of a file to read data values from. Should be a tab-separated text file, with one row per gene set. Column 1 has gene set names (identifiers), column 2 has gene set descriptions, remaining columns are gene ids for genes in that geneset

Value

A list with components

genesets

List of gene names (identifiers) in each gene set

,

geneset.names

Vector of gene set names (identifiers)

,

geneset.descriptions

Vector of gene set descriptions

Details

This function reads in a geneset collection from a .gmt text file, and creates an R object that can be used as input into GSA. We use UniGene symbols for our gene set names in our .gmt files and expression datasets, to match the two. However the user is free to use other identifiers, as long as the same ones are used in the gene set collections and expression datasets.

References

Efron, B. and Tibshirani, R. On testing the significance of sets of genes. Stanford tech report rep 2006. http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~tibs/ftp/GSA.pdf

Examples

# NOT RUN {


# read in  functional pathways gene set file from Broad institute GSEA website
# http://www.broad.mit.edu/gsea/msigdb/msigdb_index.html
# You have to register first and then download the file C2.gmt from
#   their site

#GSA.read.gmt(C2.gmt)

# }