PMIDAmat: A function to compute the probe to PubMed id incidence matrix.
Description
For a given chip or a given set of genes, it computes the mapping from
probes to PubMed id.
Usage
PMIDAmat(pkg, gene=NULL)
Arguments
pkg
The package name of the chip for which the incidence matrix should
be computed.
gene
A character vector of interested probe set ids or NULL (default).
Value
A matrix containing zero or one, depending on whether the probe
(column) is associated with a PubMed id (row).
Details
Not much to say, just find which probes are associated with which
PubMed ids and return the incidence matrix, with PubMed ids as rows and probes as
columns.
To specify a set of probes to use, let the argument gene to be
a vector of probe ids. Bt this way, the calculations are not
involved with non-interested genes/PubMed ids so that the whole
process could finish soon.