getUnregisteredBeads {beadarray} | R Documentation

## Finds unregistered beads

### Description

Function returns a list of all beads on a particular array that were not decoded

### Usage

    getUnregisteredBeads(BLData, array)

### Arguments

`BLData` | an BeadLevelList object
`array` | numeric value for the array that we want to find unregistered beads on

### Details

Beads which cannot be decoded are assigned a ProbeID of 0 and excluded from further analysis. The function simply looks up all beads which have a ProbeID of 0 and returns the index of the bead (1-49777).

### Value

vector of numeric specifying the indices of beads which were not decoded properly

### Author(s)

Mark Dunning

### Examples

    data(BLData)

    getUnregisteredBeads(BLData, 1)

    u = getUnregisteredBeads(BLData,1)

    u[1:20]

    BLData$ProbeID[33,1]

    ##For a quick test to see where these beads are located we can use 'plotBeadLocations'

    plotBeadLocations(BLData, ProbeID=0, array=1, label=FALSE)

[Package beadarray version 1.0.0 Index]