process_database {sccca}

Process the database for the sctype approach

Description

This Function is used to process the database that will be used for sctype approach

Usage

process_database(database_name = "sctype", org = 'a', tissue, tissue_type = 'n')

Arguments

database_name

name of the database to be used that can be 'sctype' or 'UMD'.

org

name of organism to be used that can be 'h' for human, 'm' for mouse, and 'a' for all markers.

tissue

specified tissue from which the data comes.

tissue_type

tissue type whether 'a' for all types 'n' for normal tissues only or "c" for cancer tissues.

Value

vector of genes names which overlap with the correlation matrix.

Author(s)

Mohmed Soudy [e-mail] and Sohpie LE BARS [e-mail] and Enrico Glaab [e-mail]