[BioC] PhenoData

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Tue Apr 17 21:08:41 CEST 2012


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



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