[BioC] limma or beadarray for Illumina microarray ?

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Leon,

Leo Nitsche wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I'm wondernig about what is the more relevant package among limma and
> Beadarray to analyse data from Illumina beadchip microarrays?

The two packages do different things; beadarray is for preprocessing the 
raw data and limma is for fitting linear models and detecting 
differentially expressed genes. So both are relevant, just at different 
stages of the game.

Best,

Jim


> 
> Thank you for any feedback
> Leon
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