[BioC] Recent changes to Bioconductor packages

Sat, 1 Feb 2003 05:00:02 -0500 (EST)

This is an automated message sent out weekly to report recent changes
to Bioconductor packages.  Please see the files madman/Rpacks/NEWS
and NEWS.old at any time for up to date information.  

Also, please remember to edit the NEWS file yourself after making any
noteworthy changes to the packages - follow the format used in these
files and make sure to sign your name to the entry.

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Jan 31, 2003: dbTools - a new package added to handle basic database queries for     Rdbi and RODBC. - JZ

Jan 31, 2003: SAGElyzer - functions added for setting up a database for sage 
     libraries and finding sage tags with similar expression patterns to a given     target sage tag. - JZ 

Jan 30, 2003:  annotate, added a function to build UniGene queries. These are
     more common for cDNA arrays. RG

Jan25/2003 Added lots of stuff to the graph class. New generalGraph class,
 hash tables, and a variety of other helpers - RG

Jan 25/2003 Added T. Lumley's color ramp functions to geneplotter - RG