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The Bioconductor Project: Open-source Statistical Software for the
Analysis of Microarray Data

Katherine S. Pollard
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley

QB3 Microarray Course
University of California, Santa Cruz
August 15, 2003

Class notes

Full overview of Bioconductor software: .pdf

Lecture slides: .pdf

Lab materials
 

Lab1  R and Bioconductor Basics
Lab2 Introduction to Bioconductor Annotation Packages
Lab3  Introduction to Bioconductor marray Packages

UCSC03 course package (Linux/Unix) (Windows).

You can step through the labs interactively using the vExplorer function and GUI from the tkWidgets package. At the R prompt type
             library(UCSC03)
              vExplorer()
and select the package UCSC03 and the vignette for a given lab, e.g., lab1Basics.Rnw.

Installing software

For notes on software installation, follow the "HowTo" link on the Bioconductor website. The following software should be installed for the UCSC03 course.

Documentation

Main R website: R manuals, R News.
Main Bioconductor website: Bioconductor short course, vignettes, talks, publications.
 
 
 

News
2008-10-22

BioC 2.3, consisting of 294 packages and designed to work with R 2.8.z, was released today.

2008-05-01

BioC 2.2, consisting of 260 packages and designed to work with R 2.7.0, was released today.