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message: 'To cite package "healthyControlsPresenceChecker" in publications use:'
type: software
license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'healthyControlsPresenceChecker: Dowloads A Gene Expression Dataset From GEO
  And Checks If It Contains Data Of Healthy Controls Or Not'
version: 1.16.0
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.healthyControlsPresenceChecker
abstract: 'A function that reads in the GEO accession code of a gene expression dataset,
  retrieves its data from GEO, and checks if data of healthy controls are present
  in the dataset. It returns true if healthy controls data are found, and false otherwise.
  GEO: Gene Expression Omnibus. ID: identifier code. The GEO datasets are downloaded
  from the URL <https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/series/>.'
authors:
- family-names: Chicco
  given-names: Davide
  email: davide.chicco@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: geoCancerDiagnosticDatasetsRetriever, a bioinformatics application for handily
    detecting cancer diagnostic datasets on Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO)
  authors:
  - family-names: Chicco
    given-names: Davide
    email: davide.chicco@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142
  - family-names: Alameer
    given-names: Abbas
  journal: Under review
  year: '2021'
  url: http://bioconductor.org/packages/healthyControlsPresenceChecker/
repository: https://bioconductor.org/
repository-code: https://github.com/davidechicco/healthyControlsPresenceChecker
commit: afc4e9805c0f4f221572c177c25c92470cbbca16
url: https://github.com/davidechicco/healthyControlsPresenceChecker
date-released: '2026-04-28'
contact:
- family-names: Chicco
  given-names: Davide
  email: davide.chicco@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142