Hello ... I have just put a new package in the system, contributed by Xiaogang Zhong, Leslie Cope, Elizabeth Garret and Giovanni Parmigiani. The package is named 'MergeMaid', and it should be available to the public tommorow morning (Eastern US time) Package: MergeMaid Version: 2.0-1 Title: Merge Maid Author: Xiaogang Zhong <zhong@ams.jhu.edu> Leslie Cope <cope@jhu.edu> Elizabeth Garrett <esg@jhu.edu> Giovanni Parmigiani <gp@jhu.edu> Maintainer: Xiaogang Zhong <zhong@ams.jhu.edu> Description: The functions in this R extension are intended for cross-study comparison of gene expression array data. Required from the user is gene expression matrices, their corresponding gene-id vectors and other useful information, and they could be 'list','matrix','exprSet'. The main function is 'mergeExprs' which transforms the input objects into data in the merged format, such that common genes in different datasets can be easily found. And the function 'intcor' calculate the correlation coefficients. Other functions use the output from 'modelOutcome' to graphically display the results and cross-validate associations of gene expression data with survival. Depends: R (>= 1.7.0), survival License: GPL version 2 or higher URL: http://astor.som.jhmi.edu/MergeMaid

Hello ... A new contributed package is available as part of the BioC-Devel distribution, GeneTraffic. Package: GeneTraffic Title: GeneTraffic R Integration Functions Version: 1.0.4 Author: Daniel Iordan, Iobion Informatics <daniel.iordan@iobion.com> Description: Set of functions and class definitions to be able to read GeneTraffic specific data from a project summary zip file and covert them to BioConductor objects^M (for 1 color projects affy's exprSet, for 2 color projects marray's marrayRaw) Maintainer: ^MDaniel Iordan, Iobion Informatics <daniel.iordan@iobion.com> License: GPL URL: http://www.iobion.com/web_services/GeneTrafficAPI/ Depends: R (>= 1.8.1), Biobase (>= 1.4.0)^M, affy (>= 1.3.28), marray (>= 1.5.10), SSOAP(>= 0.1.2), XML (>= 0.95.6), digest(>= 0.1.1)