Assign a shared "dupGroup" number to each duplicated interaction, here defined as A.canonical, type, B.canonical. All other information about the interaction is ignored. An A-B interaction is treated the same as a B-A interaction. This assessment prepares a possibly large interaction set for scrutiny by eye, or programmatically, for filtering, in which a single preferred interaction can be selected, out of each dupGroup, for further use.
This is the primary interface to the RefNet services, in which approximately thirty interaction providers return annotated molecular (often protein-protein) interactions in response to a standard query language ("MIQL" – the molecular interaction query language). This method is thus an R interface to MIQL, with several conveniences added.
Assign a shared "dupGroup" number to each duplicated interaction, here defined as A.canonical, type, B.canonical. All other information about the interaction is ignored. An A-B interaction is treated the same as a B-A interaction. This assessment prepares a possibly large interaction set for scrutiny by eye, or programmatically, for filtering, in which a single preferred interaction can be selected, out of each dupGroup, for further use.
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