OLINgui               package:OLINgui               R Documentation

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

     The function 'OLINgui' provides a graphical user interface for
     visualisation, normalisation and quality testing of two-channel
     microarray data. It is based on the functions of the OLIN package.

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

     OLINgui()

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

     The function 'OLINgui' launches a graphical user interface for the
     OLIN package. It is based on Tk widgets using the R TclTk
     interface by Peter Dalgaard. It also employs some pre-made widgets
     from the tkWidgets Bioconductor-package by Jianhua Zhang for the
     selection of objects/files to be loaded. 

     OLINgui provides a convient interface to most functionalities of
     the OLIN package without restriction of options. An exception is
     the visualisaton, where default arguments for plotting  are used.
     To fine-tune plots, the underlying plotting functions in the OLIN
     package can be applied. 

     The usage of OLINgui assumes existing marray objects for the batch
     of arrays to  be analysed and normalised.  To construct marray
     objects using a graphical interface, refer to  'read.marrayRaw'.
     Some underlying functions (e.g.'mxy2.plot' and optinally 'olin') )
     require an additonal list of X- and Y-coordinates of spots.  This
     has to be done by hand yet. However, most functions do not need
     this list.  

     For a overview of the functionality of OLINgui, please refer to
     the package documentation.

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

     OLINgui returns a tclObj object.

_N_o_t_e:

     The newest versions of 'OLINgui' can be found at the OLIN webpage 
     (<URL:
     http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~futschik/software/R/OLIN>).

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

     Matthias E. Futschik (<URL:
     http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~futschik>)

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


        1.  M.Futschik and T.Crompton (2004) _Model selection and
           efficiency testing for normalization of cDNA microarray
           data_, *Genome Biology*, 5:R60

        2.  M.Futschik and T.Crompton (2005) _OLIN: Optimized
           normalization, visualization and quality testing for
           two-channel microarray data_, *Bioinformatics*, 21(8):1724-6               

        3.  OLIN web-page: <URL:
           http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~futschik/software/R/OLIN>

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

     'olin'

