# beadarray
Quality Assessment, processing and analysis of Illumina microarray data

The package is able to read bead-level data (raw TIFFs and text files) output by BeadScan as well as bead-summary data from BeadStudio. Methods for quality assessment and low-level analysis are provided.

## Author: 

Mark Dunning, Mike L. Smith, Jonathan Cairns, Andy Lynch, Matt Ritchie

## Maintainer: 

Mark Dunning <m.j.dunning at sheffield.ac.uk> 

## Citation

> Dunning MJ, Smith ML, Ritchie ME and Tavaré S (2007). “beadarray: R classes and methods for Illumina bead-based data.” Bioinformatics, 23(16), pp. 2183–4. 

## Installation

``` 
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("beadarray")
```

## Documentation

To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter: 

```
browseVignettes("beadarray")
```
