Download metadata for ENCODE knockdown experiments

Source: R/ENCODE.R

Download metadata for ENCODE knockdown experiments

downloadENCODEknockdownMetadata(
  cellLine = NULL,
  gene = NULL,
  file = "ENCODEmetadata.rds"
)

Arguments

cellLine

Character: cell line

gene

Character: target gene

file

Character: RDS filepath with metadata (if file doesn't exist, it will be created)

Value

Data frame containing ENCODE knockdown experiment metadata

See also

Other functions related with using ENCODE expression data: loadENCODEsamples(), performDifferentialExpression(), prepareENCODEgeneExpression()

Examples

downloadENCODEknockdownMetadata("HepG2", "EIF4G1")
#> Downloading metadata for ENCODE knockdown experiments...
#> Error in download.file(file, tmpFile, method = method, mode = "wb", quiet = !showProgress): cannot open URL 'https://www.encodeproject.org/metadata/type=Experiment&limit=all&searchTerm=knockdown/metadata.tsv'