normalize                package:affy                R Documentation

_N_o_r_m_a_l_i_z_e - _g_e_n_e_r_i_c

_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n:

     A generic function which normalizes microarray data. Normalization
     is intended to remove from the intensity measures any systematic
     trends which arise from the microarray technology rather than from
     differences between the probes or between the target RNA samples
     hybridized to the arrays.

_U_s_a_g_e:

     normalize(object, ...)

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s:

  object: a data object containing microarray data

     ...: any other arguments

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o:

     Type 'showMethods("normalize")' at the R prompt to see what
     methods are available. Help on individual methods is generally
     available as 'normalize'.<class> where <class> is the class of the
     data object. For example, for the main class in the 'affy' package
     use '?normalize.AffyBatch'.

     Other Bioconductor packages include some related generic
     functions: 'normalizeWithinArrays', and  'normalizeBetweenArrays',
     in the LIMMA package, and  'maNorm' in the marrayNorm package.