Write a function to quickly query the Open-access database of kinetic parameters #26
Description
This new paper describes a database of average parameter estimates for a large number of tracers. This is potentially useful for altering starting parameter values, as well as for checking that things don't look too weird.
I think it would be ill-advised to try to actually try to automatically incorporate the values into the actual starting parameters as this would get messy and open up for way too many potential issues with regions, or when the original paper does funny stuff like fixing the K1/k2 ratio.
But I think it could be useful to have a function that works along these lines:
query_dock <- function( radioligand_grob , model = NULL, region = NULL, parameter = NULL )
.... where not providing the null arguments simply provides all the output (i.e. no specification of parameter --> all parameters etc). And the first argument could fuzzy match to the closest, or else all radioligands containing the specific grob.
This should be pretty straightforward, and provide a nice way to quickly check one's results or get an idea for the kinds of ranges to expect.