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beadarray

Quality assessment and low-level analysis for Illumina BeadArray data

Bioconductor version: 3.23 · Package version: 2.62.2

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3.24 (devel), 3.23 (release)

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.

DOI: 10.18129/B9.bioc.beadarray

Installation

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

BiocManager::install("beadarray")

Details

MaintainerMark Dunning <m.dunning@imperial.ac.uk>
AuthorMark Dunning, Mike Smith, Jonathan Cairns, Andy Lynch, Matt Ritchie
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Source branchRELEASE_3_23
Build report Bioconductor build system, r-universe
biocViewsMicroarray, OneChannel, Preprocessing, QualityControl, Software
Package Short Url https://bioconductor.org/packages/beadarray/

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 2.62.2, https://bioconductor.org/packages/beadarray.

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

Documentation

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Follow the installation instructions to use this package in your R session.

Source packagebeadarray_2.62.2.tar.gz
Windows binary (x86_64)beadarray_2.62.2.zip
macOS binary (arm64)beadarray_2.62.2.tgz
macOS binary (x86_64)beadarray_2.62.2.tgz
Dependencies

Depends: R (>= 3.5.0), BiocGenerics (>= 0.3.2), Biobase (>= 2.17.8), hexbin

Imports: limma, AnnotationDbi, stats4, reshape2, GenomicRanges, IRanges, methods, ggplot2, BeadDataPackR

Suggests: lumi, vsn, affy, hwriter, beadarrayExampleData, illuminaHumanv3.db, gridExtra, BiocStyle, TxDb.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg19.knownGene, ggbio, knitr

Reverse dependencies

Depends On Me (1): beadarrayExampleData

Imports Me (4): arrayQualityMetrics, BeadArrayUseCases, blima, epigenomix

Suggests Me (3): blimaTestingData, lumi, maGUI