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geneExpressionFromGEO

Easily Downloads a Gene Expression Dataset from a GEO Code and Retrieves the Gene Symbols of Its Probesets

v1.3 · Dec 9, 2025 · GPL-3

Description

A function that reads in the GEO code of a gene expression dataset, retrieves its data from GEO, (optionally) retrieves the gene symbols of the dataset, and returns a simple dataframe table containing all the data. Platforms available: GPL11532, GPL23126, GPL6244, GPL8300, GPL80, GPL96, GPL570, GPL571, GPL20115, GPL1293, GPL6102, GPL6104, GPL6883, GPL6884, GPL13497, GPL14550, GPL17077, GPL6480. GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus. ID: identifier code. The GEO datasets are downloaded from the URL <https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/>. More information can be found in the following manuscript: Davide Chicco, "geneExpressionFromGEO: an R package to facilitate data reading from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)". Microarray Data Analysis, Methods in Molecular Biology, volume 2401, chapter 12, pages 187-194, Springer Protocols, 2021, <doi:10.1007/978-1-0716-1839-4_12>.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies xml2 Biobase annotate GEOquery geneExpressionFromGEO

Version History

new 1.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Dec 8, 2025
updated 1.2 ← 0.9 diff Apr 10, 2025
updated 0.9 ← 0.8 diff Dec 15, 2021
updated 0.8 ← 0.6 diff Nov 6, 2021
updated 0.6 ← 0.5 diff Apr 23, 2021
updated 0.5 ← 0.4 diff Apr 5, 2021
updated 0.4 ← 0.3 diff Jan 24, 2021
updated 0.3 ← 0.2 diff Nov 16, 2020
new 0.2 Nov 15, 2020