getArrayDesign            package:MAGEML            R Documentation

_G_e_t _a_r_r_a_y_D_e_s_i_g_n _o_b_j_e_c_t

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function parses the ArrayDesign package and returns an
     arrayDesign object.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     getArrayDesign(file = "", datadir = "")

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

    file: XML document containing the DesignElement package.

 datadir: The directory where XML file resides.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     List of three lists, called "location", "feature" and "zone".

_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:

     arrayDesign

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

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

