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A container (S4 class) for matrix-like assays


Bioconductor version: Release (3.23)

The SummarizedExperiment container contains one or more assays, each represented by a matrix-like object of numeric or other mode. The rows typically represent genomic ranges of interest and the columns represent samples.

Author: Martin Morgan [aut], Valerie Obenchain [aut], Jim Hester [aut], Hervé Pagès [aut, cre]

Maintainer: Hervé Pagès <hpages.on.github at gmail.com>

Citation (from within R, enter citation("SummarizedExperiment")):

Martin Morgan, Valerie Obenchain, Jim Hester, Hervé Pagès. SummarizedExperiment: A container (S4 class) for matrix-like assays. doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.SummarizedExperiment, R package version 1.42.0, https://bioconductor.org/packages/SummarizedExperiment.

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Installation

To install this package, start R (version "4.6") and enter:

if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")

BiocManager::install("SummarizedExperiment")

For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.

Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:

browseVignettes("SummarizedExperiment")
2. Extending the SummarizedExperiment class HTML R Script
1. SummarizedExperiment for Coordinating Experimental Assays, Samples, and Regions of Interest HTML R Script
Reference ManualPDF
NEWSText

Details

biocViews Annotation, Coverage, Genetics, GenomeAnnotation, Infrastructure, Sequencing, Software
Version1.42.0
In Bioconductor sinceBioC 3.2 (R-3.2) (11 years)
License Artistic-2.0
Depends R (>= 4.0.0), methods, MatrixGenerics (>= 1.1.3), GenomicRanges (>= 1.61.4), Biobase
Imports utils, stats, tools, Matrix, BiocGenerics (>= 0.51.3), S4Vectors (>= 0.33.7), IRanges (>= 2.23.9), Seqinfo, S4Arrays (>= 1.1.1), DelayedArray (>= 0.31.12)
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URLhttps://bioconductor.org/packages/SummarizedExperiment
Bug Reportshttps://github.com/Bioconductor/SummarizedExperiment/issues
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