THE OLIGO PACKAGE

The oligo package provides tools to preprocess oligonucleotide arrays. It is designed to support all Affymetrix and NimbleGen chips and offers tools for reading in intensity files in their native format (Affymetrix CEL files and NimbleGen XYS files).

Installation

oligo is a BioConductor package. The recommended way to install it is loading R and using biocLite, as shown below:

 source('http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R')
 biocLite('oligo')

What does it offer?

oligo offers a number of tools for preprocessing:

• Data Import: Affymetrix CEL and NimbleGen XYS files;
• Background correction methods;
• Normalization methods;
• Summarization methods;
• Visualization tools;
• Quality control tools via PLMs;

Contributing

1. Fork it.
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my_contrib)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am "My Contributions")
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my_contrib)
5. Create an Issue with a link to your branch

Contact

Benilton Carvalho <myFirstName.myLastName> AT cancer org uk