[BioC] beginner question

[Sandrine Dudoit]

Hi Matthew,

Wish I had time to cover more material during the EBI workshop ...

Instructions for installing R and Bioconductor are given in the FAQ
http://www.bioconductor.org/faq.html#How can Bioconductor be obtained

The slides and labs for the EBI and other courses are posted in the "Short
Courses" section
http://www.bioconductor.org/workshop.html

For affy you should have a look at Lab 4 from EMBO and the ENAR short
course. The affy package also contains a number of How To's. Papers are
available from Rafael Irizarry's website
http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~ririzarr/

I hope this helps.

Best regards,
Sandrine

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Matthew J Arno wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is probably a very trivial question coming from a complete
> beginner. I would like to use Bioconductor to normalise and analyse
> affymetrix chip data. However, looking at the website, I can't even
> work out how to install it! Can you let me know what I need to do to
> install and use Bioconductor? I recently attended a workshop held at
> the EBI in Cambridge, UK, where Sandrine Dudoit gave a great
> introductory talk on Bioconductor, however, she didn't have time to
> show us the Affy-specific part of the presentation.  Is there any way I
> can at least see the slides from that part of the talk, or attend a
> training course somewhere (or should I give uo now!!)? I feel a bit
> lost and lagging behind in the technology, here...
>
> I'm a biologist with no special computer training, running a windows
> PC, and I know nothing of R or Unix or anything like that. I'm used to
> GeneSpring type packages that make things simple (but are expensive).
>
> Thanks very much for your time and help.
>
> Regards,
> matt
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