blocking.design: Blocking Design

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Description

Assign arrays to samples with blocking experimental design by array slide. For example Agilent comes with an eight-plex design. That is the number of arrays in an array slide is eight; within each array slide, equal number of arrays are assigned to either sample group.

Usage

blocking.design(seed, num.per.slide = 8, num.array)

Arguments

seed	an integer used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator.
num.per.slide	number of arrays per array slide. It must be a multiple of 2. By default, num.per.slide = 8 for Agilent microarrays.
num.array	number of arrays. It must be a multiple of num.per.slide.

Value

a vector of array IDs in the order of assigning to samples that are assumed to be sorted by sample group of interest As a result, the first half of the array IDs are assigned to sample group 1 and the second half of the array IDs are assigned to sample group 2.

Examples

blocking.design(seed = 1, num.per.slide = 8, num.array = 128)

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