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## Human Protein Atlas in R

### Description

This package provides a simple interface to the Human Protein Atlas. From the Human Protein Atlas Project page: The Swedish Human Protein Atlas project, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, has been set up to allow for a systematic exploration of the human proteome using Antibody-Based Proteomics. This is accomplished by combining high-throughput generation of affinity-purified antibodies with protein profiling in a multitude of tissues and cells assembled in tissue microarrays. Confocal microscopy analysis using human cell lines is performed for more detailed protein localization. The program hosts the Human Protein Atlas portal with expression profiles of human proteins in tissues and cells.

### Details

Several flat files are distributed by the HPA project and available within the package as `data.frame`s. The description below is taken from the HPA site:

hpaNormalTissue

  Normal tissue data: Expression profiles for proteins in human tissues based on immunohistochemisty using tissue micro arrays. The comma-separated file includes Ensembl gene identifier ("Gene"), tissue name ("Tissue"), annotated cell type ("Cell type"), expression value ("Level"), the type of annotation (annotated protein expression (APE), based on more than one antibody, or staining, based on one antibody only) ("Expression type"), and the reliability or validation of the expression value ("Reliability").

hpaCancer

  Cancer tumor data: Staining profiles for proteins in human tumor tissue based on immunohistochemisty using tissue micro arrays. The comma-separated file includes Ensembl gene identifier ("Gene"), tumor name ("Tumor"), staining value ("Level"), the number of patients that stain for this staining value ("Count patients"), the total amount of patients for this tumor type ("Total patients") and the type of annotation staining ("Expression type").

rnaGeneTissue

  RNA gene data: RNA levels in 45 cell lines and 32 tissues based on RNA-seq. The comma-separated file includes Ensembl gene identifier ("Gene"), analysed sample ("Sample"), fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped ("Value" and "Unit"), and abundance class ("Abundance").

rnaGeneCellLine

  RNA gene data: RNA levels in 45 cell lines and 32 tissues based on RNA-seq. The comma-separated file includes Ensembl gene identifier ("Gene"), analysed sample ("Sample"), fragments per kilobase of transcript per million fragments mapped ("Value" and "Unit"), and abundance class ("Abundance").

hpaSubcellularLoc

  Subcellular location data: Subcellular localization of proteins based on immunofluorescently stained cells. The comma-separated file includes Ensembl gene identifier ("Gene"), main subcellular location of the protein ("Main location"), other locations ("Other location"), the type of annotation (annotated protein expression (APE), based on more than one antibody, or staining, based on one antibody only) ("Expression type"), and the reliability or validation of the expression value ("Reliability").

hpaSubcellularLoc14

  Same as above, for version 14.

Detailed description for gene entries and images and not included in the package but can be accessed from within the R environment through a web browser while on-line.

The full data sets can be individually loaded using the `data` function (see example below). Data about individual genes of interest can retrived with the `getHpa` function.

HPA data usage policy: The use of data and images from this site in publications and presentations is permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. The publication and/or presentation are solely for informational and non-commercial purposes.

2. The source of the data and/or image is referred to this site (www.proteinatlas.org) and/or one or more of our publications are cited.

### Author(s)

Laurent Gatto <lg390@cam.ac.uk>

### References

See the Human Protein Atlas Project page http://www.proteinatlas.org/ and http://www.proteinatlas.org/about/download for more details and documentation.

Uhlen et al (2010). Towards a knowledge-based Human Protein Atlas. Nat Biotechnol. 28(12):1248-50.

Berglund et al (2008). A gene-centric Human Protein Atlas for expression profiles based on antibodies. Mol Cell Proteomics. 7(10):2019-27.

Uhlen et al (2005). A human protein atlas for normal and cancer tissues based on antibody proteomics. Mol Cell Proteomics. 4(12):1920-1932.

Ponten et al (2008). The Human Protein Atlas - a tool for pathology. J Pathology. 216(4):387-93.

### See Also

`getHpaDate` for release information. Gene-specific information should be accessed using the `getHpa` function.

The package vignette can be accessed with `vignette("hpar")`.

### Examples

    allHparData()

    data(hpaNormalTissue)
    head(hpaNormalTissue)

    data(rnaGeneCellLine)
    head(rnaGeneCellLine)

    data(rnaGeneTissue)
    head(rnaGeneTissue)

    data(hpaSubcellularLoc)
    head(hpaSubcellularLoc)

    data(hpaSubcellularLoc14)
    head(hpaSubcellularLoc14)

    data(hpaCancer)
    head(hpaCancer)

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