the memory overhead for those data.frames you speak of quickly becomes
obscene when you start doing things like GO analyses


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Rameswara Sashi Kiran Challa <
schalla@umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Could anyone please elucidate advantages of having an Annotation package
> for an organism or point me to any documentation that clearly lists all the
> various thoughts behind coming up with an Annotation package.
>
> Will not having a data frame in R (with rows as genes and columns as
> various types of annotations like GO, KEGG, Unigene, etc) suffice? What are
> the advantages of having a AnnodbBimap objects and building a package? Are
> there any technical benefits like faster access of information?
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> -Sashi
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