GGtools: analysis of genetics of gene expression in bioconductor

Vincent J Carey; Martin Morgan; Seth Falcon; Ross Lazarus; Robert Gentleman

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl628

GGtools: analysis of genetics of gene expression in bioconductor

Bioinformatics. 2007 Feb 15;23(4):522-3. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl628. Epub 2006 Dec 8.

Authors

Vincent J Carey¹, Martin Morgan, Seth Falcon, Ross Lazarus, Robert Gentleman

Affiliation

¹ Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston 02115, USA. stvjc@channing.harvard.edu

PMID: 17158513
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl628

Abstract

This paper reviews the central concepts and implementation of data structures and methods for studying genetics of gene expression with the GGtools package of Bioconductor. Illustration with a HapMap+expression dataset is provided.

Availability: Package GGtools is part of Bioconductor 1.9 (http://bioconductor.org). Open source with Artistic License.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Review

MeSH terms

Chromosome Mapping / methods*
Computer Simulation
DNA Mutational Analysis / methods*
Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
Genetic Variation / genetics*
Genetics, Population*
Models, Genetic*
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide / genetics
Software Design
Software*
User-Computer Interface

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding