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We demonstrate the use of the package by the case study of analyzing human pancreatic cancer pathway.</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability:KEGGgraph is freely available at the Bioconductor web site (http://www.bioconductor.org). KGML files can be downloaded from KEGG FTP site (ftp://ftp.genome.jp/pub/kegg/xml).</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact:  j.zhang@dkfz-heidelberg.de</jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information:  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.</jats:p>","journal":"Bioinformatics","year":2009,"id":599787,"datarank":0.8778303719661713,"base_score":5.8522024797744745,"endowment":5.8522024797744745,"self_citation_contribution":0.8778303719661713,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.8778303719661713,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":347,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":3222,"name":"Stefan Wiemann","orcid":"0000-0003-4683-3174","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1537277,"name":"Jitao David Zhang","orcid":null,"position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"KEGGgraph: a graph approach to KEGG PATHWAY in R and bioconductor","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n               <jats:p>Motivation: KEGG PATHWAY is a service of Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG), constructing manually curated pathway maps that represent current knowledge on biological networks in graph models. 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