MIAME-class {Biobase}R Documentation

Class MIAME, a class for storing microarray experiment information

Description

We try to cover the MIAME entries that are not covered by other classes in Bioconductor. Namely, experimental design, samples, hybridizations, normalization controls, and pre-processing information.

Slots

name:
Object of class "character" containing the experimenter name
lab:
Object of class "character" containing the laboratory where the experiment was conducted
contact:
Object of class "character" containing contact information for lab and/or experimenter
title:
Object of class "character" containing a single-sentence experiment title
abstract:
Object of class "character" containing an abstract describing the experiment
url:
Object of class "character" containing a URL for the experiment
samples:
Object of class "list" containg information about the samples
hybridizations:
Object of class "list" containing information about the hybridizations
normControls:
Object of class "list" containing information about the controls such as house keeping genes
preprocessing:
Object of class "list" containing information about the pre-processing steps used on the raw data from this experiment
other:
Object of class "list" containing other information for which none of the above slots does not applies

Methods

abstract
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for abstract
expinfo
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for name, lab, contact, title, and url,
hybridizations
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for hybridizations
normControls
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for normControls
otherInfo
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for other
samples
signature(object = "MIAME"): An accesor function for samples
show
signature(object = "MIAME"): renders information about the MIAME information

Author(s)

Rafael A. Irizarry

References

http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_1.1.html


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