BCB420-2019 Resources

 

Boris Steipe,

Department of Biochemistry and Department of Molecular Genetics,

University of Toronto

Canada

<boris.steipe@utoronto.ca>

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This repository contains course material for the 2019 course in Computational Systems Biology at the University of Toronto. It is unlikely to be useful to anyone not actively participating in the course.

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Utilities

source() these files to use the functions.

• toBrowser.R: Render a markdown file to html in tempdir() and display it in the user's default browser.

 

Data resources

 

• HGNC.RData: reference symbols and identifiers for human genes from the Human Gene Nomenclature Committee.
• HGNCdata.R: The script that produced HGNC.RData (for reference)
• dataModel.md: Introduction to the systemDB database schema. Type toBrowser("dataModel.md") to study it.
• dataSources.md: Overview of data sources for the data project. Type toBrowser("dataSources.md") to access the document.
• exampleGeneSet.md: background to a set of genes associated with the phagosome-lysosome fusion system. This forms our example set for data annotation as a basis to develop data integration workflows. Type toBrowser("exampleGeneSet.md") to study it.