biodbNci

An R package for accessing biodbNci, a library for connecting to the National Cancer Institute (USA) CACTUS API, based on R package/framework biodb.

Introduction

This package is an extension of biodb that implements a connector to biodbNci, a library for connecting to the National Cancer Institute (USA) CACTUS Database.

Installation

Install the latest version of this package by running the following commands:

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install('biodbNci')

Examples

To instantiate a connector to NCI CACTUS, a library for connecting to the National Cancer Institute (USA) CACTUS Database, run:

mybiodb <- boidb::newInst()
conn <- mybiodb$getFactory()$createConn('nci.cactus')
mybiodb$terminate()

Documentation

To get documentation on the implemented connector, run the following command in R:

?biodbNci::NciCactusConn

Citations

CADD Group Chemoinformatics Tools and User Services (CACTUS), National Cancer Institute, at https://cactus.nci.nih.gov/.