query {MotifDb}R Documentation

query

Description

A very general search tool, returning all matrices whose metadata, in ANY column, is matched by the query string.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'MotifList'
query(object, queryString, ignore.case=TRUE)

Arguments

object

a MotifList object.

queryString

a character string

ignore.case

a logical value, default TRUE

Value

A list of the matrices

Author(s)

Paul Shannon

See Also

MotifDb, subset, export, flyFactorSurvey, hPDI, jaspar, ScerTF, uniprobe

Examples

  mdb <- MotifDb
  matrices.human <- query(mdb, 'hsapiens')
  matrices.sox4 <- query(mdb, 'sox4')
  uniprobe.sox.matrices <- query(query(mdb, 'uniprobe'), '^sox')

[Package MotifDb version 1.22.0 Index]