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Fetch articles for given gene IDs from Google Scholar

searchGSC.Rd

This function searches the Google Scholar corpus for the articles that contains your Gene ID of interest.

Usage

searchGSC(geneID)

Arguments

geneID

Character vector of Gene IDs. If you want to use gene symbols, use organism name alongside to avoid articles that might have similar abbreviated word. eg. use "AP2-P AND Plasmodium".

Value

A data frame, containing 5 columns: GeneID, Title of the article, Year of Publication, Url and Authors.

Details

Warning: Scraping Google Scholar is against their Terms of Service. We advise users to use this function for querying few IDs (not more than 20) per day. Proceeding with this function may result in your IP being blocked temporarily.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
test <- searchGSC(c("PF3D7_0420300", "PF3D7_0621000"))
test <- searchGSC(geneID = c("AP2-P AND Plasmodium","AP2-I"))
} # }