b00-0-generics-method: Methods "process" and "analyze"

In PreProcess: Basic Functions for Pre-Processing Microarrays

Description

New generic functions for processing and analyzing microarrays.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
process(object, action, parameter=NULL)
## S4 method for signature 'ANY'
analyze(object, ...)

Arguments

object	any OOMPA class representing a microarrays or a set of microarrays
action	the action to process the class
parameter	any parameters needed to execute the process
...	extra arguments for generic routines

Details

In general, the analyze method represents an expensive computational step carried out in preparation for a graphical display, but the semantics may differ from class to class. The default implementation of the method performs the null analysis; that is, the return value is identical to the object that is passed in as the first argument.

The process method represents a function that acts on the data of some object to process it in some way. For example, normalizing a set of microarray data is typically one processing step in a long series that is required to take the raw data and turn it into something useful.

Value

The form of the value returned by either process or analyze depends on the class of its argument. See the documentation of the particular methods for details of what is produced by that method.

Author(s)

Kevin R. Coombes [e-mail], P. Roebuck [e-mail]

See Also

Pipeline, Processor

PreProcess documentation built on May 6, 2019, 5:02 p.m.