fhesc {humanStemCell}R Documentation

Data from a simple experiment on Human stem cells.

Description

Human stem cells were assayed using Affymetrix 133plus 2 arrays. There were six arrays, three were biological replicates for undifferentiated cells, the other three were biological replicates for differentiated cells.

Usage

data(fhesc)

Format

The data are in the form of an ExpressionSet instance.

Details

Human Embryonic Stem Cells, H1 Line were cultured under feeder-free conditions. Undifferentiated samples were taken from this pool. The differentiated samples were obtained by maintaining the cells in culture for 10 - 14 days in the absence of basic fibroblast growth factor and conditioned medium.

Source

The data were obtained from Dr. M. Tewari.

References

These data were used to prepare the book chapter, R and Bioconductor packages in bioinformatics: towards systems biology, by Nolwenn LeMeur, Michael Lawrence, Merav Bar, Muneesh Tewari and Robert Gentleman

Examples

data(fhesc)

[Package humanStemCell version 0.2.5 Index]