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[Bioc-devel] Use of SummerisedExperiments or MultiAssayExperiments of many many Dataframes/ nested List objects

2 messages · Dario Strbenac, Levi Waldron

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Good day,

You are operating with tables of statistical hypothesis test summaries, rather than input data which the tests are done with, so it doesn't make sense to use SummarizedExperiment or MultiAssayExperiment. The data is not experimental measurements. You should try DataFrame from Bioconductor package S4Vectors. It's better than a data.frame and won't flood your console with output.

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Dario Strbenac
University of Sydney
Camperdown NSW 2050
Australia
2 days later
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Krutik, what's the link to your package submission issue on GitHub? I feel
I would need a little more information on the package to give my opinion or
advice. It is true that SummarizedExperiment and MultiAssayExperiment are
designed primarily for experimental data rather than for differential
expression output.  But my first impression is that it will be important
for you to directly support output from DESeq2, edgeR, and limma, since
those are where most Bioconductor users get differential expression output
from.