geosoftread

Read data from a Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) SOFT file

Syntax

GEOSOFTData = geosoftread('File')

Arguments

File

Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) formatted file (ASCII text file). Enter a filename, a path and filename, or a URL pointing to a file. File can also be a MATLAB character array that contains the text of a GEO file.

Description

geosoftread reads data from a Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) SOFT formatted file (File), and creates a MATLAB structure (GEOSOFTdata) with the following fields:

Scope
Accession
Header
ColumnDescriptions
ColumnNames
Data

Fields correspond to the GenBank keywords. Each separate entry listed in File is stored as a separate element of the structure.

Examples

Get data from the GEO web site and save it to a file.

geodata = getgeodata('GSM3258','ToFile','GSM3258.txt');

Use geosoftread to access a local copy from disk instead of accessing it from the GEO web site.

geodata = geosoftread('GSM3258.txt')

See Also

Bioinformatics Toolbox functions galread, getgeodata, gprread, sptread


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