[Bioc-devel] MultiAssayExperiment compared to SummarizedExperiment (was: Why should Bioconductor developers re-use core classes?)

On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Dario Strbenac <dstr7320 at uni.sydney.edu.au>
wrote:

Good day,

It might be useful to readers to have a comparison table (ticks and
crosses) in the MultiAssayExperiment vignette that compares the features
available in it to those available in SummarizedExperiment, to allow
quicker decision making.

Good point, this is worth adding. I think the decision can probably be made
on one consideration: if it makes sense to represent all your assays by a
single set of rownames or row ranges, and a single set of colnames, then
you should use SummarizedExperiment. If your assays don't "match up" in
this way, then MultiAssayExperiment. Of course, the ExperimentList elements
of a MultiAssayExperiment can be SummarizedExperiments...

Levi Waldron
http://www.waldronlab.org
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics     CUNY School of Public Health
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