caulobacter: Microarray Time Series Data for 1444 Caulobacter Crescentus...

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Microarray Time Series Data for 1444 Caulobacter Crescentus Genes

Description

This data set describes the temporal expression of 1444 genes (open reading frames) in the cell cycle of the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus.

Usage

data(caulobacter)

Format

caulobacter is a longitudinal object containing the data from the Laub et al. (2000) experiment. Essentially, this is a matrix with with 1444 columns (=genes) and 11 rows (=time points)

Source

This data is described in Laub et al. (2000).

References

Laub, M.T., McAdams, H.H., Feldblyum, Fraser, C.M., and Shapiro, L. (2000) Global analysis of the genetic network controlling a bacterial cell cycle. Science, 290, 2144–1248.

Examples

# load GeneCycle library
library("GeneCycle")

# load data set
data(caulobacter)
is.longitudinal(caulobacter)

# how many samples and how many genes?
dim(caulobacter)
summary(caulobacter)
get.time.repeats(caulobacter)

# plot first nine time series
plot(caulobacter, 1:9)

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