done

On 12/5/06, Gordon Smyth <smyth@wehi.edu.au> 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
>
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