Help on R language for biostatistics

05 May 2011 1 4K Report

Hi All

I am completely new to R and I am currently working on a project using R. I would like to know, how do we normalize using R for gene expression data.

Aparna Sampath

I could always take the help of really good books! :) Thanks a lot Laurin :)

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