TCGA data assessment

TCGAbiolinks Bioconductor package is the most suitable tool for assessing TCGA datasets on a systematic and integrative fashion. One must, therefore, be familiar with the R environment/language in order to properly use it. Follow this TCGAbiolinks analysis tutorial by the developers in order to familirize yourself with its capabilities within R.

In case you are wondering how to simply extract TCGA gene expression quantification data (e.g. tables) through an ad-hoc fashion to prepare it for your own DE analytical pipeline (programming language-agnostic) and/or look for some genes of interest, we have worked on this brief tutorial aiming at supporting our community on performing such task.