So ideally, this wouldn't make anyone's life more difficult. In my
mind, the nice thing about the eSet's use of MIAME is that it is
voluntary and minimal, but a reminder of those things which could be
important if the data object drops into someone's hands in the future.
For example, some HTS-
When I first started pulling GEO eSet representations into SE/sset objects,
I found that I had to write something to handle the mandatory MIAME data:
setAs("MIAME", "SimpleList",
function(from) { # {{{
to = list()
for(i in slotNames(from)) if(i != '.__classVersion__')
to[[i]]=slot(from,
On 02/03/2013 06:37 AM, Mike Love wrote:
hi,
Does/should there exist a class similar to MIAME for sequencing data, e.g. slots
concerning the library preparation, alignment, etc.?
This could then be suggested as something to include in the exptData SimpleList
of SummarizedExperiment.
As it is