MultiAssayExperiment Cheatsheet (original) (raw)

Summary of the MultiAssayExperiment API

Updated from Ramos et al., Cancer Research 2017; DOI:10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-17-0344

API Overview

Constructors

Accessors

Subsetting

Management

Reshaping

Combining

Coercion

Export

Notes

• assay: Procedure for measuring biological activity (e.g., RNA-seq).
• experiment: Application of an assay to a sample set.
• mae: A MultiAssayExperiment object.
• subject: Patient, cell line, or other biological unit.
• observation: Results of an assay (e.g., gene expression).
• features: Measurement units labeled by row names or genomic ranges.
• duplicated() was deprecated in Bioconductor 3.7 and replaced by replicated().