tkMIAME              package:tkWidgets              R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     This function provides a widget for users to enter experimental
     design MIAME information.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     tkMIAME()

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s:

     This widget provides an interface to enter experimental
     information following the MIAME (Minimum Information About a
     Microarray Experiment) standard.

     A draft of the latest document (v. 1.1) is <URL:
     http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_1.1.html>

     Brazma et al. divide the MIAME into 6 sections 1. Experimental
     design, 2. Array design, 3. Samples, 4. Hybridizations, 5.
     Measurements, and 6. Normalization controls This widget is for the
     first section. We ask for the user to enter: experimenter name,
     laboratory, contact information, a single-sentence experiment
     title, an abstract describing the experiment, URLs. This slot
     could also include a formal statistical description of the
     experimental design (e.g. using factors). Some of this info is
     already stored in phenoData or elsewhere.

     The function returns a list that is intended for the creation of
     an object of class 'MIAME'. However, we return a list so that the
     function can work independently of the Biobase package.

_V_a_l_u_e:

     A list containing entries:

ExperimentName: character string

 LabName: character string

ContactInfo: character string

ExperimentTitle: character string

Description: character string

     URL: character string

_A_u_t_h_o_r(_s):

     Majnu John

_R_e_f_e_r_e_n_c_e_s:

     ``Minimum information about a microarray experiment (MIAME)-toward
     standards for microarray data'', A. Brazma, et al., Nature
     Genetics, vol. 29 (December 2001), pp. 365-371, <URL:
     http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_1.1.html>

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     'MIAME'

