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beadarray

This is the development version of beadarray; for the stable release version, see beadarray.

All versions 3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release), 3.22, 3.21, 3.20, 3.19, 3.18, 3.17, 3.16, 3.15, 3.14, 3.13, 3.12, 3.11, 3.10, 3.9, 3.8, 3.7, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 2.14, 2.13, 2.12, 2.11, 2.10, 2.9, 2.8, 2.7, 2.6, 2.5

Quality assessment and low-level analysis for Illumina BeadArray data


Bioconductor version: Development (3.24)

The package is able to read bead-level data (raw TIFFs and text files) output by BeadScan as well as bead-summary data from BeadStudio. Methods for quality assessment and low-level analysis are provided.

Author: Mark Dunning, Mike Smith, Jonathan Cairns, Andy Lynch, Matt Ritchie

Maintainer: Mark Dunning <m.dunning at imperial.ac.uk>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("beadarray")):

Mark Dunning, Mike Smith, Jonathan Cairns, Andy Lynch, Matt Ritchie. beadarray: Quality assessment and low-level analysis for Illumina BeadArray data. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.beadarray, R package version 2.63.4, https://bioconductor.org/packages/beadarray.

Generated from the package metadata; it may differ from the package's own citation.

Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

## The following initializes the development version of Bioconductor
BiocManager::install(version = "devel")

BiocManager::install("beadarray")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("beadarray")
Introduction to beadarray HTML R Script
Analysis of Bead-level Data using beadarray HTML R Script
Analysis of bead-summary data HTML R Script
Image Analysis with beadarray HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText
LICENSEText

Details

biocViews Microarray, OneChannel, Preprocessing, QualityControl, Software
Version2.63.4
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 1.8 (R-2.3) (20.5 years)
License MIT + file LICENSE
Depends R (>= 3.5.0), BiocGenerics (>= 0.3.2), Biobase (>= 2.17.8), hexbin
Imports limma, AnnotationDbi, stats4, reshape2, GenomicRanges, IRanges, methods, ggplot2, BeadDataPackR
System Requirements
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Suggests lumi, vsn, affy, hwriter, beadarrayExampleData, illuminaHumanv3.db, gridExtra, BiocStyle, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, ggbio, knitr
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Depends On Me beadarrayExampleData
Imports Me arrayQualityMetrics, BeadArrayUseCases, blima, epigenomix
Suggests Me blimaTestingData, lumi, maGUI
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Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source Package beadarray_2.63.4.tar.gz
Windows Binary (x86_64) beadarray_2.63.4.zip (64-bit only)
macOS Binary (big-sur-x86_64) beadarray_2.63.4.tgz
macOS Binary (sonoma-arm64) beadarray_2.63.4.tgz
Source Repositorygit clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/beadarray
Source Repository (Developer Access)git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/beadarray
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/beadarray/
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