expSetProcess {clusterCons}

Internal function to extract the data from an expressionSet class object from the affy package for use with cluscomp

Description

This is a convenience function that is used internally to allow the user to pass an expressionSet object from the microarray processing package 'affy' directly to the cluscomp function.

Usage

expSetProcess(x)

Arguments

x

An object of class expressionSet from the Bioconductor package 'affy'.

Value

when called directly, returns a suitably labeled data.frame() object of the expressionSet expression values.

Author(s)

Dr. T. Ian Simpson [e-mail]

References

Merged consensus clustering to assess and improve class discovery with microarray data. Simpson TI, Armstrong JD and Jarman AP. BMC Bioinformatics 2010, 11:590.