Dear all,I was just wondering what is the importance of phenoData in the affy analysis?.It might be a very silly question to most of you but I was still confused regarding the same.Thanks,Himanshu Sharma. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:59 PM, <hsharm03 at="" students.poly.edu=""> wrote: > > Dear all,I was just wondering what is the importance of phenoData in the affy analysis?.It might be a very silly question to most of you but I was still confused regarding the same.Thanks,Himanshu Sharma. The phenoData is simply a container for the information about the samples run on the arrays. One need not use the phenoData slot, but one typically wants to assign some annotation to the samples and the phenoData is a convenient way to do so. Sean