annotations {FAMT}

Gene annotations data frame

Description

A data frame with 6 columns describing the 9893 genes, which expressions are stored in the 'expression' dataset, in terms of functional categories, oligonucleotide size and location on the microarray. See also expression, covariates.

Usage

data(annotations)

Format

A data frame with 9893 observations on the following 6 variables.

ID

Gene identification

Name

Gene annotation (functional categories) (character)

Block

Location on the microarray(factor)

Column

Location on the microarray (factor)

Row

Location on the microarray (factor)

Length

Oligonucleotide size (numeric vector)

Source

UMR Genetique Animale - INRA/AGROCAMPUS OUEST - Rennes, France.

References

Blum Y., Le Mignon G., Lagarrigue S. and Causeur S. (2010) - A factor model to analyze heterogeneity in gene expression, BMC Bioinformatics, 11:368.

Le Mignon, G. and Desert, C. and Pitel, F. and Leroux, S. and Demeure, O. and Guernec, G. and Abasht, B. and Douaire, M. and Le Roy, P. and Lagarrigue S. (2009) - Using trancriptome profling to characterize QTL regions on chicken chromosome 5. BMC Genomics, 10:575.

Examples

data(annotations)
dim(annotations) 
summary(annotations)