getPlatformList: Get list of platform identifiers

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Description

Get the list of all platform identifiers supported by the package.

Usage

getPlatformList(...);

Arguments

...	Optional arguments can be passed to the function for more specific requests: norm Type of normalization to use when pre-processing a dataset. Possible values: "ORIGINAL", "FRMA"[1], "SCAN"[2]. If specified, only datasets for which the given preprocessed data is available are returned.

Value

A list of platform identifiers.

References

[1] MN. McCall, BM. Bolstad, and RA. Irizarry, Frozen Robust Multi-Array Analysis (fRMA), Biostatistics, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 242-253 , 2008.

[2] SR. Piccolo, Y. Sun, JD. Campbell, ME. Lenburg, AH. Bild, and WE. Johnson, A single-sample microarray normalization method to facilitate personalized-medicine workflows, Genomics, vol. 100, no. 6, pp. 337-344, 2012.

Examples

length(getPlatformList());
## 14
length(getPlatformList(norm="ORIGINAL"));
## 14
length(getPlatformList(norm="FRMA"));
## 6

inSilicoDb documentation built on Oct. 5, 2016, 4:40 a.m.