get.assay.desc {rpubchem} | R Documentation |
PubChem stores a number of pieces of information for each bio-assay. These include the description of the assay, related comments as well as type information (name, units, description) for the extra columns in the assay data.
This method accesses the description information and extracts a subset of that available.
get.assay.desc(aid)
aid |
A valid assay ID. This can be obtained using find.assay.id if not already known |
A list
object with the following named components
assay.desc |
A short description of the assay |
assay.comments |
A list of comments for the assay |
types |
A matrix with 3 columns. The first column is the
name of the assay specific columns. The second column contains the
descriptions of each assay specific column. The final column lists
the units for each of the assay specific columns. In case an assay
column is unitless, the value of the unit for that column is NA |
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