DESCRIPTION

Package: Risa
Version: 0.99.2
Date: 2012-08-31
Title: Converting experimental metadata from ISA-tab into
       Bioconductor data structures
Author: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, Audrey Kauffmann, Steffen Neumann, Gabriella Rustici, ISA Team
Maintainer: Alejandra Gonzalez-Beltran, ISA Team <isatools@googlegroups.com>
Depends: R (>= 2.0.9), Biobase (>= 2.4.0), methods, Rcpp (>= 0.9.13)
Imports: xcms
Suggests: faahKO (>= 1.2.11)
Description: The Investigation / Study / Assay (ISA) tab-delimited 
	 format is a general purpose framework with which to collect and communicate 
	 complex metadata (i.e. sample characteristics, technologies used, type 
	 of measurements made) from experiments employing a combination of 
	 technologies, spanning from traditional approaches to high-throughput
	 techniques. Risa allows to access metadata/data in ISA-Tab format and 
	 build Bioconductor data structures. Currently, data generated from microarray, 
	 flow cytometry and metabolomics-based (i.e. mass spectrometry) assays are supported. 
   The package is extendable and efforts are undergoing to support metadata associated to proteomics assays.
License: LGPL
biocViews: Annotation, DataImport, MassSpectrometry
URL: <http://isatab.sourceforge.net/>