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Hi Hanx, You might take a look at the biocViews page, which breaks down the different packages by what general things they are intended to do: http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/1.8/BiocViews.html HTH, Jim SH_73 wrote: > HI Everybody, I'm a newcomer and so generally not familiar with > Bioconductor packages. It made me a little dizzy facing so many > packages. So, where and how to start in a smart way, instead of > playing arround for too long a time? Are there any redundancies among > the packages, or are they completely complimentary? I have some real > original Affymetrix array data, my basic mission is to open/read the > data sets into R, preprocess them, and make comparisons to get > significantly changed mRNAs. My background: somewhat familiar with R > language environment and some experience at basic stat analysis, but > not in array data. Thanks, Hanx (Xianglu Han) Depart of Environmental > Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center Rochester, NY 14642 > USA > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ Bioconductor mailing > list Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor Search the > archives: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC 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.

Depending on the help you are looking for, you will probably find the 'Bioinformatics and Computational biology solutions using R and Bioconductor' book (http://www.bioconductor.org/pub/docs/mogr/) very usefull. It covers both theoretical background and help with R code. More info regarding both R and Bioconductor can be found on the 'documentation' part of the bioconductor website (http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/). good luck! SH_73 wrote: >HI Everybody, > I'm a newcomer and so generally not familiar with Bioconductor packages. It made me a little dizzy facing so many packages. So, where and how to start in a smart way, instead of playing arround for too long a time? Are there any redundancies among the packages, or are they completely complimentary? > I have some real original Affymetrix array data, my basic mission is to open/read the data sets into R, preprocess them, and make comparisons to get significantly changed mRNAs. > My background: somewhat familiar with R language environment and some experience at basic stat analysis, but not in array data. > Thanks, > Hanx (Xianglu Han) > Depart of Environmental Medicine > University of Rochester Medical Center > Rochester, NY 14642 > USA > > >--------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >_______________________________________________ >Bioconductor mailing list >Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch >https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >Search the archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor > >