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DeSciDe

Tool for Unbiased Literature Searching and Gene List Curation

v1.0.2 · Aug 31, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Designed for genomic and proteomic data analysis, enabling unbiased PubMed searching, protein interaction network visualization, and comprehensive data summarization. This package aims to help users identify novel targets within their data sets based on protein network interactions and publication precedence of target's association with research context based on literature precedence. Methods in this package are described in detail in: Douglas (Year) <to-be-added DOI or link to the preprint>. Key functionalities of this package also leverage methodologies from previous works, such as: - Szklarczyk et al. (2023) <doi:10.1093/nar/gkac1000> - Winter (2017) <doi:10.32614/RJ-2017-066>.

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examples

Running examples in ‘DeSciDe-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: plot_string_network
> ### Title: Plot STRING Network
> ### Aliases: plot_string_network
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> library(STRINGdb)
> string_db <- STRINGdb$new(species = 9606)
WARNING: Score threshold is not specified. We will be using medium stringency cut-off of 400.
WARNING: You didn't specify a version of the STRING database to use. Hence we will use STRING  12.0 
> string_ids <- c("9606.ENSP00000269305", "9606.ENSP00000357940")
> plot_string_network(string_db, string_ids, file_directory = tempdir(), export = FALSE)
Error in readPNG(postFormSmart(urlStr, .params = params, .ctype = "raw")) : 
  libpng error: Not a PNG file
Calls: plot_string_network -> <Anonymous> -> get_png -> readPNG
Execution halted
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'DeSciDe-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: plot_string_network
> ### Title: Plot STRING Network
> ### Aliases: plot_string_network
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> library(STRINGdb)
> string_db <- STRINGdb$new(species = 9606)
WARNING: Score threshold is not specified. We will be using medium stringency cut-off of 400.
WARNING: You didn't specify a version of the STRING database to use. Hence we will use STRING  12.0 
> string_ids <- c("9606.ENSP00000269305", "9606.ENSP00000357940")
> plot_string_network(string_db, string_ids, file_directory = tempdir(), export = FALSE)
Error in readPNG(postFormSmart(urlStr, .params = params, .ctype = "raw")) : 
  libpng error: Not a PNG file
Calls: plot_string_network -> <Anonymous> -> get_png -> readPNG
Execution halted
ERROR r-release-windows-x86_64

examples

Running examples in 'DeSciDe-Ex.R' failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> ### Name: plot_string_network
> ### Title: Plot STRING Network
> ### Aliases: plot_string_network
> 
> ### ** Examples
> 
> library(STRINGdb)
> string_db <- STRINGdb$new(species = 9606)
WARNING: Score threshold is not specified. We will be using medium stringency cut-off of 400.
WARNING: You didn't specify a version of the STRING database to use. Hence we will use STRING  12.0 
> string_ids <- c("9606.ENSP00000269305", "9606.ENSP00000357940")
> plot_string_network(string_db, string_ids, file_directory = tempdir(), export = FALSE)
Error in readPNG(postFormSmart(urlStr, .params = params, .ctype = "raw")) : 
  libpng error: Not a PNG file
Calls: plot_string_network -> <Anonymous> -> get_png -> readPNG
Execution halted

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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 20, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

examples

Running examples in ‘DeSciDe-Ex.R’ failed
The error most likely occurred in:

> base::assign(".ptime", proc.time(), pos = "CheckExEnv")
> ### Name: plot_string_network
> ### Title: Plot STRING Network
> ### Aliases: plot_string_network
> 
> ### ** Ex
...[truncated]...
g_db, string_ids, file_directory = tempdir(), export = FALSE)
Error in readPNG(postFormSmart(urlStr, .params = params, .ctype = "raw")) : 
  libpng error: Not a PNG file
Calls: plot_string_network -> <Anonymous> -> get_png -> readPNG
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies rentrez ComplexHeatmap circlize STRINGdb data.table igraph ggplot2 openxlsx dplyr tidyr magrittr tibble ggrepel DeSciDe

Version History

new 1.0.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.0.2 ← 1.0.1 diff Aug 30, 2025
updated 1.0.1 ← 1.0.0 diff Jun 19, 2025
new 1.0.0 Apr 28, 2025