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DGEList-class: Digital Gene Expression data - class

Description

A list-based S4 class for storing read counts and associated information from digital gene expression or sequencing technologies.

Arguments

Methods

This class inherits directly from class list, so DGEList objects can be manipulated as if they were ordinary lists. However they can also be treated as if they were matrices for the purposes of subsetting.

The dimensions, row names and column names of a DGEList object are defined by those of counts, see dim.DGEList or dimnames.DGEList.

DGEList objects can be subsetted, see subsetting.

DGEList objects also have a show method so that printing produces a compact summary of their contents.

See Also

DGEList constructs DGEList objects. Other classes defined in edgeR are DGEExact-class, DGEGLM-class, DGELRT-class, TopTags-class