[BioC] plot multiple genes over time

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Mon Mar 31 19:20:05 CEST 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Mark Kimpel <mwkimpel at gmail.com> wrote:
> In several papers I have seen a plot which illustrates the value of
>  expression of several genes (usually in a cluster) over time. The y axis is
>  expression, the x axis is discrete time points, and each of the points for a
>  gene are connected by lines so one can easily see a time profile.
>
>  Is there a predefined function for this? If not, what plot parameters do I
>  use?

Hi, Mark.  You might want to look at matplot().  Also, the lattice
package is very useful for plotting multidimensional data in
interesting ways.  You might look at xyplot() in that package.

Sean



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