Dear users, I would like to ask you, whether there exists any "showcase" of bioconductor's main features and if not, whether is anyone able to make it. Some kind of a script or something which when ran would show or preferably explaine main features. I think it would be great for novices (as I am) which are trying to understand bioconductor. Maybe some visualizations of sample data, explaining texts to various functions and so... what do you think of it? Marian Such

toxygen wrote: > Dear users, > I would like to ask you, whether there exists any "showcase" of bioconductor's main features and if not, > whether is anyone able to make it. > Some kind of a script or something which when ran would show or preferably explaine main features. > I think it would be great for novices (as I am) which are trying to understand bioconductor. > Maybe some visualizations of sample data, explaining texts to various functions and so... Well, Bioconductor consists of over 150 packages at present, so I think something like this could only just scratch the surface. However, most of the packages come with at least one vignette that is supposed to give novices an example they can use to explore use of the package. If you have some BioC packages installed you can do something like library(Biobase) library(<the package="" you="" are="" interested="" in="">) openVignette() You can also step through the code in a given vignette if you have the tkWidgets package installed. source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("tkWidgets") library(tkWidgets) library(<the package="" you="" are="" interested="" in="">) vExplorer() HTH, Jim > > what do you think of it? > > > > Marian Such > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor -- James W. MacDonald University of Michigan Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core 1500 E Medical Center Drive Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues.

I found the book mentioned in http://www.bioconductor.org/pub/docs/mogr/ to be very useful. -Ben ________________________________ From: bioconductor-bounces@stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of toxygen Sent: Sat 3/18/2006 11:17 AM To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [BioC] showcase (script) Dear users, I would like to ask you, whether there exists any "showcase" of bioconductor's main features and if not, whether is anyone able to make it. Some kind of a script or something which when ran would show or preferably explaine main features. I think it would be great for novices (as I am) which are trying to understand bioconductor. Maybe some visualizations of sample data, explaining texts to various functions and so... what do you think of it? Marian Such _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing list Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor

Dear Marian, thanks to Christos Hatzis for pointing this out, just to reinforce: The book http://www.bioconductor.org/pub/docs/mogr is the main point of entry for anyone who wants to work with Bioconductor. In addition, there are a lot of great contributed packages that didn't make it into the book, please refer to the package slides http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/pslides and the package vignettes http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/vignettes.html and many package authors also have described their package in the literature (e.g. Application Notes in the journal Bioinformatics) Best wishes Wolfgang ------------------------------------- Wolfgang Huber European Bioinformatics Institute European Molecular Biology Laboratory Cambridge CB10 1SD England Phone: +44 1223 494642 Fax: +44 1223 494486 Http: www.ebi.ac.uk/huber ------------------------------------- toxygen wrote: > Dear users, > I would like to ask you, whether there exists any "showcase" of bioconductor's main features and if not, > whether is anyone able to make it. > Some kind of a script or something which when ran would show or preferably explaine main features. > I think it would be great for novices (as I am) which are trying to understand bioconductor. > Maybe some visualizations of sample data, explaining texts to various functions and so... > > what do you think of it? > > > > Marian Such