On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Pete Shepard <peter.shepard@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello Newb here,
>
> I have a list of ratios for a set of genes and I would like to look at
> their
> expression profile using a heat map.
>
> The data for 1 gene looks like this:
>
>                    tissue1     tissue2    tissue3        tissue4
>  tissue5    tissue5
> gene 1     -0.29        -0.64         -0.6        -0.62
> -0.27       NA
>
> Is there a way to do this using Bioconductor?
>

Hi, Pete.  R/Bioc have extensive built-in help facilities.

help.search('heatmap')
RSiteSearch('heatmap')



>
>
>
> Also, I am wondering if anyone can recommend a book or site for learning
> Bioconductor. I am primarily concerned with analying exon arrays but am
> intrigued by the other gadgets BioC seems to have?
>

You might start with the page:

http://bioconductor.org/GettingStarted

Each package in Bioconductor has one or more attached "vignettes" that
details the use of the package; these are good places to start for each
different package.

Sean

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