produceGEOSubmissionFile {lumi}R Documentation

Produce GEO Sample Submission File in SOFT format

Description

Produce GEO Sample Submission File in the SOFT format based on the provided LumiBatch object and sample information

Usage

produceGEOSubmissionFile(lumiNormalized, lumiRaw, lib.mapping, sampleInfo = NULL, fileName = "GEOSubmissionFile.txt", supplementaryRdata = TRUE)

Arguments

lumiNormalized The normalized data (LumiBatch object)
lumiRaw The raw data (LumiBatch object), e.g., returned by lumiR
lib.mapping The Illumina ID Mapping library, e.g., "lumiHumanIDMapping"
sampleInfo The sample information filename or data.frame, which is returned by produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate
fileName The file name of GEO Submission file
supplementaryRdata determine whether produce the Rdata supplement data, which include both lumiNormalized and lumiRaw R objects.

Details

The function produces the GEO sample submission file including both normalized and raw data information in the SOFT format. The sample information should be provided by the user as a data.frame or Tab separated text file following the format of the template, which can be produced by function produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate. Users need to fill in the detailed sample descriptions in the template, especially the Sample_title, Sample_description and some protocols. Users are also suggested to fill in the "Sample_platform_id" by checking information of the GEO Illumina platform.

When the parameter "supplementaryRdata" is TRUE, the R objects, lumiNormalized, lumiRaw and sampleInfo, will be saved in a file named 'supplementaryData.Rdata'.

Value

Save the result as a text file in SOFT sample submission format. The supplementary Rdata will be saved in a file 'supplementaryData.Rdata'.

Author(s)

Pan Du

References

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/geo/info/soft2.html

See Also

produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate, produceGEOPlatformFile

Examples

## Not run
## Produce the sample information template
# produceGEOSampleInfoTemplate(lumiNormalized, lib.mapping = NULL, fileName = "GEOsampleInfo.txt")
## After editing the 'GEOsampleInfo.txt' by filling in sample information
# produceGEOSubmissionFile(lumiNormalized, lumiRaw, lib='lumiHumanIDMapping', sampleInfo='GEOsampleInfo.txt')

[Package lumi version 1.8.3 Index]