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

[Tim Triche, Jr.]

And/or

MAE : SE :: Ragged : Tidy

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On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Tim Triche, Jr. <tim.triche at gmail.com>
wrote:

> MAE : SE :: Tensor : Matrix
>
> --t
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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...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Levi Waldron
>> http://www.waldronlab.org
>> Assistant Professor of Biostatistics     CUNY School of Public Health
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