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An annotation database

Source: R/annotation_database_class.R
annotation_database.Rd

An annotation_database is an annotation_source() where the imported data.frame contains meta data for annotations. For example it might be a table of molecular identifiers, associated pathways etc.

Usage

annotation_database(data = data.frame(), tag = "", ...)

Arguments

data

(data.frame, NULL) A data.frame of annotation data. The default is data.frame().

tag

(character) A (short) character string that is used to represent this source e.g. in column names or source columns when used in a workflow. The default is "".

...

Additional slots and values passed to struct_class.

Value

A annotation_database object. This object has no output slots.

Inheritance

A annotation_database object inherits the following struct classes:

[annotation_database] -> [annotation_source] -> [struct_class]

See also

Other annotation databases: AnnotationDb_database(), GO_database(), annotation_source(), excel_database(), rdata_database(), rds_cache(), rds_database()

Other annotation sources: annotation_table(), cd_source(), ls_source(), mspurity_source(), mwb_study_source()

Examples

M <- annotation_database(
        tag = character(0),
        data = data.frame(),
        source = "ANY")