getBioAssayData {MAGEML} | R Documentation

## Get bioAssayData object

### Description

This function parses the BioAssayData package and returns an bioAssayData object which contains a slot with assayed feature references and a slot with the used array design.

### Usage

    getBioAssayData(file = "", datadir = "")

### Arguments

`file` | XML document containing the DesignElement package.
`datadir` | Directory where the XML file resides.

### Value

BioAssayData object containing the assayed feature references and array design used in BioAssay.

### Author(s)

Joke Allemeersch, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~jallemee
Steffen Durinck, http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck.

### References

Spellman PT, Miller M, Stewart J, Troup C, Sarkans U, Chervitz S, Bernhart D, Sherlock G, Ball C, Lepage M, Swiatek M, Marks WL, Goncalves J, Markel S, Iordan D, Shojatalab M, Pizarro A, White J, Hubley R, Deutsch E, Senger M, Aronow BJ, Robinson A, Bassett D, Stoeckert CJ Jr and Brazma A. Design and implementation of microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML). Genome Biol. 2002 Aug 23;3(9):RESEARCH0046.

### See Also

bioAssayData

### Examples

    data <- system.file("data", package="MAGEML")
    getBioAssayData(file="Iron.xml",datadir=data)

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