Rentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API

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dc.citation.issue2
dc.citation.volume9
dc.contributor.authorWinter DJ
dc.date.available2017-12
dc.date.issued2017-12
dc.description.abstractThe USA National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is one of the world's most important sources of biological information. NCBI databases like PubMed and GenBank contain millions of records describing bibliographic, genetic, genomic, and medical data. Here I present rentrez, a package which provides an R interface to 50 NCBI databases. The package is well-documented, contains an extensive suite of unit tests and has an active user base. The programmatic interface to the NCBI provided by rentrez allows researchers to query databases and download or import particular records into R sessions for subsequent analysis. The complete nature of the package, its extensive test-suite and the fact the package implements the NCBI's usage policies all make rentrez a powerful aid to developers of new packages that perform more specific tasks.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent520 - 526
dc.identifierhttp://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000423751200035&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=c5bb3b2499afac691c2e3c1a83ef6fef
dc.identifier.citationR JOURNAL, 2017, 9 (2), pp. 520 - 526
dc.identifier.doi10.32614/RJ-2017-058
dc.identifier.elements-id397985
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn2073-4859
dc.publisherThe R Foundation for Statistical Computing
dc.relation.isPartOfR JOURNAL
dc.rightsThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
dc.subject.anzsrc0104 Statistics
dc.subject.anzsrc0803 Computer Software
dc.titleRentrez: An R package for the NCBI eUtils API
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Sciences
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