[BioC] how to understand the concept metadata in bioconductor

[Martin Morgan]

On 01/29/2013 02:58 PM, Tim Triche, Jr. wrote:
> (meant to send to list as well)
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> That link could certainly stand to be renamed, and thereby reduce confusion.
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> It's not that annotation isn't data about collected measurement data (it
> is), but rather there's a handy name for such metadata within BioC:
> 'annotations'
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> Now I can understand better the point of confusion.

Not sure that I do, but the links have been re-named 'Annotation Data' 
consistent with the biocViews term. Martin

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> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Wang Peter <wng.peter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> please see this website
>> on the right upper region
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>> metadata=annotation packages
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>> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/data/annotation/
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>> shan
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