README.Rmd

---
title: "MSigDB"
output: github_document
---

```{r setup, include=FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(echo = TRUE)
```


Houses gene lists from [Broad Institute Molecular Signatures](http://software.broadinstitute.org/gsea/msigdb/index.jsp) Database. They do want to keep track of their user counts so you might want to log in there as well. Note that there is an [msigdbr](https://github.com/igordot/msigdbr) package that is also uploaded to CRAN that provides
similar funcitonality.

Installation
==========
```r
devtools::install_github('oganm/MSigDB')
```

Usage
=====

```{r}
library(MSigDB)
names(MSigDB)
names(MSigDB$human)
head(names(MSigDB$human$H))

MSigDB$human$H$HALLMARK_PEROXISOME
```

`getMSigInfo` function simply navigates to the broad institute website with the relevant data

```r
getMSigInfo('HALLMARK_PEROXISOME','human')
```