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Get Persons Information by Name

Source: R/reactome_content.R
rba_reactome_people_name.Rd

Using this function you can query people by partially matching or exact name and retrieve a list of matching people in Reactome.

Usage

rba_reactome_people_name(person_name, exact_match = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

person_name

Character: first and last name of the person

exact_match

Logical: (default = FALSE) should the supplied name be considered as an exact match?

...

rbioapi option(s). See rba_options's arguments manual for more information on available options.

Value

List where each element is a search hit contains the person's information.

Corresponding API Resources

"GET https://reactome.org/ContentService/data/people/name/{name}"
"GET https://reactome.org/ContentService/data/people/name/{name}/exact"

References

  • Ragueneau, E., Gong, C., Sinquin, P., Sevilla, C., Beavers, D., Grentner, A., ... D’Eustachio, P. (2026). The Reactome Knowledgebase 2026. Nucleic Acids Res., 54(D1), D673–D681. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkaf1223

  • Griss, J., Viteri, G., Sidiropoulos, K., Nguyen, V., Fabregat, A., & Hermjakob, H. (2020). ReactomeGSA—Efficient Multi-Omics Comparative Pathway Analysis. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, 19(12), 2115–2125. doi: 10.1074/mcp.TIR120.002155

  • Reactome Content Services API Documentation

  • Citations note on Reactome website

See also

Other "Reactome Content Service - Person Queries": rba_reactome_people_id()

Examples

# \donttest{
rba_reactome_people_name("Jupe")
# }
# \donttest{
rba_reactome_people_name("Steve Jupe", exact_match = TRUE)
# }