In danro9685/OncoScore: A tool to identify potentially oncogenic genes

Overview

OncoScore is a tool to measure the association of genes to cancer based on citation frequency in biomedical literature. The score is evaluated from PubMed literature by dynamically updatable web queries.

library(knitr)
opts_chunk$set(
concordance = TRUE,
background = "#f3f3ff"
)

Installing OncoScore

The R version of OncoScore can be installed from Github. To do so, we need to install the R packages OncoScore depends on and the devtools package.

# install OncoScore dependencies
if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("biomaRt")

# install OncoScore library
if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("danro9685/OncoScore", ref = "master")

# load OncoScore library
library("OncoScore")