[Bioc-devel] MultiAssayExperiment compared to SummarizedExperiment (was: Why should Bioconductor developers re-use core classes?)

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

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On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Levi Waldron <lwaldron.research at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Dario Strbenac <
> dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
> > Good day,
> >
> > It might be useful to readers to have a comparison table (ticks and
> > crosses) in the MultiAssayExperiment vignette that compares the features
> > available in it to those available in SummarizedExperiment, to allow
> > quicker decision making.
> >
>
> Good point, this is worth adding. I think the decision can probably be made
> on one consideration: if it makes sense to represent all your assays by a
> single set of rownames or row ranges, and a single set of colnames, then
> you should use SummarizedExperiment. If your assays don't "match up" in
> this way, then MultiAssayExperiment. Of course, the ExperimentList elements
> of a MultiAssayExperiment can be SummarizedExperiments...
>
>
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