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MultiDataSet: an R package for encapsulating multiple data sets with application to omic data integration
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Author:
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Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles, 1987-; Ruiz-Arenas, Carlos; Beltran-Gomila, Alba; González Ruiz, Juan Ramón
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Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: Reduction in the cost of genomic assays has generated large amounts of biomedical-related data. As a result, current studies perform multiple experiments in the same subjects. While Bioconductor's methods and classes implemented in different packages manage individual experiments, there is not a standard class to properly manage different omic datasets from the same subjects. In addition, most R/Bioconductor packages that have been designed to integrate and visualize biological data often use basic data structures with no clear general methods, such as subsetting or selecting samples. RESULTS: To cover this need, we have developed MultiDataSet, a new R class based on Bioconductor standards, designed to encapsulate multiple data sets. MultiDataSet deals with the usual difficulties of managing multiple and non-complete data sets while offering a simple and general way of subsetting features and selecting samples. We illustrate the use of MultiDataSet in three common situations: 1) performing integration analysis with third party packages; 2) creating new methods and functions for omic data integration; 3) encapsulating new unimplemented data from any biological experiment.CONCLUSIONS: MultiDataSet is a suitable class for data integration under R and Bioconductor framework. |
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This work has been partly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MTM2015-68140-R). CH-F was supported by a grant from European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no 308333 – the HELIX project. CR-A was supported by a FI fellowship from Catalan Government (#016FI_B 00272) |
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-Genòmica -Programari |
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© Carles Hernandez-Ferrer, Carlos Ruiz-Arenas, Alba Beltran-Gomila, Juan R. González. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Article Article - Published version |
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BioMed Central
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