RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 quincunx: an R package to query, download and wrangle PGS Catalog data
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2021.02.19.431997
DO 10.1101/2021.02.19.431997
A1 Ramiro Magno
A1 Isabel Duarte
A1 Ana -Teresa Maia
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/02/20/2021.02.19.431997.abstract
AB Motivation The Polygenic Score (PGS) Catalog is a recently established open database of published polygenic scores that, to date, has collected, curated, and made available 721 polygenic scores from over 133 publications. The PGS Catalog REST API is the only method allowing programmatic access to this resource.Results Here, we describe quincunx, an R package that provides the first client interface to the PGS Catalog REST API. quincunx enables users to query and quickly retrieve, filter and integrate metadata associated with polygenic scores, as well as polygenic scoring files in tidy table format.Availability quincunx is freely available under an MIT License, and can be accessed from https://github.com/maialab/quincunx.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.