CD8A and neoplasm: Functions in theBiocOncoTK package (Carey8) build onrestfulSE functionality to a) authenticate the user to the BigQuery platform, b) select a tumor type (COAD) and assay forSummarizedExperiment construction, c) bind Dinget al.’s MSI values as sample-level data variablemsiTest, d) acquire and transform the PD-L1 and CD8A (Entrez IDs 29126 and 925) expression values, and e) form the stratified boxplot.