2 Case examples

In this chapter, we will show, with five case examples, how to retrieve data from five public repositories and some basic analysis that can be performed on the data. We introduce the functions and packages in R/Bioconductor that can be used to perform specific queries, retrieval, and analysis, all within a single R session. Further chapters will treat in detail the packages and the functions used to produce the results.

The R code to reproduce the results and figures of this chapter can be found here.