brendaDb

Overview

brendaDb aims to make importing and analyzing data from the BRENDA database easier. The main functions include:

• [x] Read text file downloaded from BRENDA into an R tibble
• [x] Retrieve information for specific enzymes
• [x] Query enzymes using their synonyms, gene symbols, etc.
• [x] Query enzyme information for specific BioCyc pathways

Installation

brendaDb is a Bioconductor package and can be installed through BiocManager::install().

if (!requireNamespace("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("brendaDb", dependencies=TRUE)

Alternatively, install the development version from GitHub.

if(!requireNamespace("brendaDb")) {
  devtools::install_github("y1zhou/brendaDb")
}

After the package is installed, it can be loaded into the R workspace by

library(brendaDb)

Usage

To learn more about brendaDb, please refer to the vignette.

browseVignettes(package = "brendaDb")