Class "BeadChip"

Description

A predefined class represent BeadChip from Illumina. Inherited from class gSlide.

Predefined chips

IlluminaBeadChip: A slide with 6 rows and 2 columns. The 12 wells is numbered columns first.

GenotypingChip: A slide with 12 rows and one column.

Extends

Class "gSlide", directly. Class "gArray", by class "gSlide", distance 2.

Methods

getLayout

signature(x = "BeadChip"): Return a data frame represent the layout of the chip.

Examples

newChip <- new("BeadChip",  nRows=6, nColumns=1, byrow=FALSE, comment="mock chip")
newChip

GenotypingChip
IlluminaBeadChip