Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on December 8, 2006
Bioinformatics 2007 23(4):522-523; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl628
GGtools: analysis of genetics of gene expression in bioconductor
1 Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital 75 Francis Street, Boston 02115, USA
2 Program in Computational Biology, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Avenue N, Seattle, WA 02115, USA
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Summary: This paper reviews the central concepts and implementation of data structures and methods for studying genetics of gene expression with the GGtools package of Bioconductor. Illustration with a HapMap+expression dataset is provided.
Availability: Package GGtools is part of Bioconductor 1.9 (http://bioconductor.org). Open source with Artistic License.
Contact: stvjc{at}channing.harvard.edu
Associate Editor: Keith A Crandall
Received on August 18, 2006; revised on November 7, 2006; accepted on December 5, 2006