load_markers {gaia} | R Documentation |
This function loads the markers contained within the matrix passed as argument and creates for all chromosomes an ordered vector containing the position of each marker.These vectors are loaded within a list.
load_markers(marker_matrix)
marker_matrix |
contains the marker descriptions as a matrix with the following structure: |
This function returns a list having the following structure:
chromosome_marker_list[[i]] |
is a matrix of dimension 2xN (N is the number of observed probes for the i-th chromosome) the first and the second row contains the start and the end position of each marker of the i-th chromosome respectively. |
An example of the data produced by this function can be found in synthMarkers
.
Sandro Morganella et al.
Maintainer: S. Morganella <morganellaalx@gmail.com>
# Load the matrix containing the informations about the markers data(synthMarkers_Matrix) # Use the function load_markers to obtain the marker descriptor data object marks <- load_markers(synthMarkers_Matrix)