Retrieves edges from specified databases and stacks them into one data.table.This is a helper function in prepareAdjMat
and should not be called by the user.
stackDatabases(databases)
A data.table with columns:
Which database the edge comes from
Source gene
Source gene identifier type
Destination gene
Destination gene identifier type
Direction of edge. Either Directed or Undirected
Character vector of databases to compile. Should be one of the options from hspaiens in graphite::pathwayDatabases()
Michael Hellstern
This function compiles all the edges from all databases specified into one data.table
Ma, J., Shojaie, A. & Michailidis, G. (2016) Network-based pathway enrichment analysis with incomplete network information. Bioinformatics 32(20):165--3174.
obtainEdgeList