[BioC] GEOquery: can I use getGEO to retrieve the metadata annotation only

[aedin culhane]

Brilliant, this is perfect.

What is the build (update) schedule of GEOmetadb? 
weekly/monthly/quaterly etc

Thanks
Aedin

On 11/08/2010 12:32 PM, Sean Davis wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:29 PM, aedin culhane <aedin at jimmy.harvard.edu
> <mailto:aedin at jimmy.harvard.edu>> wrote:
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>     Hi All
>     I am using getGEO to retrieve data from GEO. Can I just obtain the
>     metadata only, ie not download the expression data.
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>     I wish to obtain a subset of one of the large studies.  Therefore, I
>     want to search the metadata to determine which subset of GSM files I
>     need, and then just download that subset of cel files.
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>     Thanks a million
>     Aedin
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> Hi, Aedin.  We have packaged all of the GEO metadata into the GEOmetadb
> package.  You might start there.
>
> Sean