getArrayLayout            package:RMAGEML            R Documentation

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

     This function creates a marrayLayout object.

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

     getArrayLayout( mageOM )

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  mageOM: Reference to MAGE Object Model

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

     Steffen Durinck, <URL: http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~sdurinck>
       Joke Allemeersch, <URL:
     http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~jallemee>.

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

     Spellman PT, Miller M, Stewart J, Troup C, Sarkans U, Chervitz S,
     Bernhart D, Sherlock G, Ball C, Lepage M, Swiatek M, Marks WL,
     Goncalves J, Markel S, Iordan D, Shojatalab M, Pizarro A, White J,
     Hubley R, Deutsch E, Senger M, Aronow BJ, Robinson A, Bassett D,
     Stoeckert CJ Jr and Brazma A. Design and implementation of
     microarray gene expression markup language (MAGE-ML). Genome Biol.
     2002 Aug 23;3(9):RESEARCH0046.

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

     'importMAGEOM'

_E_x_a_m_p_l_e_s:

     data<-system.file("MAGEMLdata", package="RMAGEML")
     #To obtain a marrayInfo object containing the database identifiers of the features present on the array.#
     mageom<-importMAGEOM(directory=data)
     getArrayLayout(mageom)

