aafSearchText: Search metadata annotation text
In annaffy: Annotation tools for Affymetrix biological metadata

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Searches Bioconductor metadata annotation package text for specific strings or Perl compatible regular expressions.

1	aafSearchText(chip, colnames, text, logic = "OR")

`chip`	name of the chip data package
`colnames`	character vector of metadata column names to search
`text`	character vector of strings/regular expressons to match
`logic`	type of logic to use, "AND" or "OR"

A character vector of probe ids matching the search criteria.

Colin A. Smith, annaffy@colinsmith.org

aafSearchGO

if (require(hgu95av2.db)) {
    aafSearchText("hgu95av2.db", "Description", c("kinase", "interferon"))
#   aafSearchText("hgu95av2.db", c("Gene Ontology", "Pathway"), "ribosome")
}