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

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Hanx,

You might take a look at the biocViews page, which breaks down the 
different packages by what general things they are intended to do:

http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/BiocViews.html

HTH,

Jim

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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