getBioAssayData            package:MAGEML            R Documentation

_G_e_t _b_i_o_A_s_s_a_y_D_a_t_a _o_b_j_e_c_t

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     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.

_U_s_a_g_e:

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

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    file: XML document containing the DesignElement package.

 datadir: Directory where the XML file resides.

_V_a_l_u_e:

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

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

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

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     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.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     bioAssayData

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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

