[BioC] suggestion : new object for exprSet

Kasper Daniel Hansen k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk
Mon Mar 21 20:54:00 CET 2005


On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:07:42AM -0800, Seth Falcon wrote:
> Hi Adai,
> 
> Adaikalavan Ramasamy <ramasamy at cancer.org.uk> writes:
> > Would it be possible to have preprocessing algorithms in BioConductor
> > (e.g RMA, GCRMA, MAS 5.0) to _automatically_ include a description of
> > how the data was preprocessed into the resulting exprSet object ?
> 
> I like this idea and will suggest it to the team here.

I think it should be implemented by automatically adding some lines to 
the "notes" slot. exprSets are used for a lot of things and I do not 
think it is appropriate to have a "pre-process" slot which might not be 
relevant for all uses.

Kasper



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