GEOquery
GEO
GEO Homepage
Human Genome
Gathering and cleaning data from GEO
The 4 steps that would need to be done without this package:
Manually download data from the GEO website
Parse complex SOFT format files
Construct data structures suitable for analysis
Integrate metadata with expression data
GEOquery
With GEOquery you can:
quickly gather data from GEO
navigate between R and the GEO website
work in the dataset directly in R
GEOquery Demo
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