\HeaderA{getQTypeDescription}{Retrieves description of a QuantitationType}{getQTypeDescription}
\keyword{methods}{getQTypeDescription}
\begin{Description}\relax
This function retrieves the description of a QuantitationType.
\end{Description}
\begin{Usage}
\begin{verbatim}getQTypeDescription( mageOM = NULL, QTypeID = "" )\end{verbatim}
\end{Usage}
\begin{Arguments}
\begin{ldescription}
\item[\code{mageOM}] R reference to MAGE Object Model
\item[\code{QTypeID}] ID of QuantitationType
\end{ldescription}
\end{Arguments}
\begin{Author}\relax
Steffen Durinck, \url{http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck}\\ 
Joke Allemeersch, \url{http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~jallemee}.
\end{Author}
\begin{References}\relax
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.
\end{References}
\begin{SeeAlso}\relax
\code{\LinkA{importMAGEOM}{importMAGEOM}},\code{\LinkA{getQuantitationTypes}{getQuantitationTypes}}
\end{SeeAlso}
\begin{Examples}
\begin{ExampleCode}
data <- system.file( "MAGEMLdata", package = "RMAGEML" )
mageom <- importMAGEOM( directory = data )
QTypes <- getQuantitationTypes( mageOM = mageom )
getQTypeDescription( mageOM = mageom , QTypeID = QTypes[1] )
\end{ExampleCode}
\end{Examples}

