title: TCGA2STAT: simple TCGA data access for integrated statistical analysis in R.
abstract: Massive amounts of high-throughput genomics data profiled from tumor samples were made publicly available by the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).
  
  
  
  We have developed an open source software package, TCGA2STAT, to obtain the TCGA data, wrangle it, and pre-process it into a format ready for multivariate and integrated statistical analysis in the R environment. In a user-friendly format with one single function call, our package downloads and fully processes the desired TCGA data to be seamlessly integrated into a computational analysis pipeline. No further technical or biological knowledge is needed to utilize our software, thus making TCGA data easily accessible to data scientists without specific domain knowledge.
  
  
  
  TCGA2STAT is available from the https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/TCGA2STAT/index.html
  
  
  
  Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
  
  
  
  zhandong.liu@bcm.edu.
authors.affiliation: Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Ying-Wooi
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Wan
authors.affiliation: Department of Statistics and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA and Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Genevera I
authors.initials: GI
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Center, Department of Pediatrics-Neurology, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Zhandong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms; D012984:Software