Gather and analyse miRNA data to design binary networks capable of recognising colorectal cancer versus healthy cells.
The data come from the GDC online database. The database API downloads each datafile in a separate folder with a hash name. These need to be concatenated into a single datafile to make for easier use.
A Matlab script loads all the data from their .txt files as Matlab tables and joins them (in the SQL sense, where the
miRNA_ID is the join key) into a single table for further analysis.
To run this script, start Matlab in the project root directory and run matlab_start.m, then call the concatenateGDCdatafiles.m script.