expandKEGGPathway {KEGGgraph}R Documentation

Expand KEGG Pathway

Description

The function expands paralogue nodes in KEGG pathway and returns expanded KEGG pathway, KEGG node and edge data is maintained.

Usage

expandKEGGPathway(pathway)

Arguments

pathway An object of KEGGPathway-class

Details

The function expands nodes with paralogues in KEGG pathway and copy neccessary edges.

Value

An object of KEGGPathway-class

Author(s)

Jitao David Zhang mailto:j.zhang@dkfz.de

See Also

expandKEGGNode

Examples

sfile <- system.file("extdata/hsa04010.xml",package="KEGGgraph")
kegg.pathway <- parseKGML(sfile)
kegg.expandpathway <- expandKEGGPathway(kegg.pathway)

[Package KEGGgraph version 1.1.0 Index]