[BioC] Beginner's Q: Where to start given so many packages?

[Tine Casneuf]

Depending on the help you are looking for, you will probably find the 
'Bioinformatics and Computational biology solutions using R and 
Bioconductor' book (http://www.bioconductor.org/pub/docs/mogr/) very 
usefull. It covers both theoretical background and help with R code.

More info regarding both R and Bioconductor can be found on the 
'documentation' part of the bioconductor website 
(http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/).

good luck!


SH_73 wrote:

>HI Everybody, 
>  I'm a newcomer and so generally not familiar with Bioconductor packages. It made me a little dizzy facing so many packages. So, where and how to start in a smart way, instead of playing arround for too long a time? Are there any redundancies among the packages, or are they completely complimentary?
>  I have some real original Affymetrix array data, my basic mission is to open/read the data sets into R, preprocess them, and make comparisons to get significantly changed mRNAs. 
>  My background: somewhat familiar with R language environment and some experience at basic stat analysis, but not in array data. 
>  Thanks, 
>  Hanx (Xianglu Han)
>  Depart of Environmental Medicine
>  University of Rochester Medical Center
>  Rochester, NY 14642
>  USA
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