done On 12/5/06, Gordon Smyth wrote: > > This is just an enquiry about an official name of the plot produced > by AffyRNAdeg() in the affy package. Is it an "RNA degradation plot" > or an "RNA digestion plot". The function produces a plot with title > "RNA digestion plot" yet the term "degradation" is used instead of > "digestion" in all the documentation that I have seen on the > function, including the article by Bolstad et al on Affy quality > assessment in the Bioconductor book. It's hard to think of any > physical process by which the RNA could be said to be "digested" so > I'd tentatively suggest that the plot title be changed. > > Cheers > Gordon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Gordon K Smyth, Senior Research Scientist, Bioinformatics, > Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, > 1G Royal Parade, Parkville, Vic 3050, Australia > Tel: (03) 9345 2326, Fax (03) 9347 0852, > Email: smyth@wehi.edu.au, www: http://www.statsci.org > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor > Search the archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > > -- Robert Gentleman, PhD Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. N, M2-B876 PO Box 19024 Seattle, Washington 98109-1024 206-667-7700 rgentlem@fhcrc.org [[alternative HTML version deleted]]