expandKEGGPathway         package:KEGGgraph         R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     The function expands paralogue nodes in KEGG pathway and returns
     expanded KEGG pathway, KEGG node and edge data is maintained.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     expandKEGGPathway(pathway)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

 pathway: An object of 'KEGGPathway-class' 

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     The function expands nodes with paralogues in KEGG pathway and
     copy neccessary edges.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     An object of 'KEGGPathway-class'

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Jitao David Zhang <URL: mailto:j.zhang@dkfz.de>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'expandKEGGNode'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     sfile <- system.file("extdata/hsa04010.xml",package="KEGGgraph")
     kegg.pathway <- parseKGML(sfile)
     kegg.expandpathway <- expandKEGGPathway(kegg.pathway)

