dear ALL: I am writing a book to introduce bioconductor. but i am confused what is the difference between AssayTechnologies and AssayDomains in the BioViews? who can tell me some material for reading thx -- shan gao Room 231(Dr.Fei lab) Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Cornell University Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853-1801 Office phone: 1-607-254-1267(day) Official email:sg839 at cornell.edu Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001986532253

Hi, On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Wang Peter <wng.peter at="" gmail.com=""> wrote: > dear ALL: > I am writing a book to introduce bioconductor. Interesting. Is this going to be published through a publisher for sale, or something you plan on putting up on a wiki? Or a pdf you will distribute yourself, or? What's your timeline? > but i am confused what is the difference between AssayTechnologies and > AssayDomains > in the BioViews? > who can tell me some material for reading I don't have the real answers, so this is all pure speculation: I'd guess that AssayDomains was meant to categorize "the types of things" one might want to measure, and AssayTechnologies would be for the concrete things used to measure them. So, gene expression, genetic variability, DNA methylation (in my mind) fit into AssayDomains because they are different types of things one would want to measure. In this schema, I think maybe aCGH and ExonArray would be categories that fit better into AssayTechnologies, and the analogous terms for these in AssayDomains would be CopyNumberVariants and AlternativeSplicing, respectively. To the extent that these categories are meant as tools to help users discover packages related to their work, I think the *exact* meaning of each isn't all that important, but perhaps a bit more clarity on what their original intent was can be useful. Maybe a brief description of these could go somewhere in the developer guideline pages so that package authors could better qualify their own work (I guess the tagging is ultimately up to them). -steve -- Steve Lianoglou Defender of The Thesis | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact

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