Statistical Analysis of Genomic Data using R and BioConductor Packages

Bioinformatics bloomed as a scientific discipline in the 1900¿s when a number of technological improvements appeared that revolutionized the field of biology. The data on the complete genomic sequence of many organisms are available, microarrays could measure the abundance of tens of thousands of mRNA species, and other arrays and bioinformatics made it possible to study protein interactions and many other cellular processes at molecular and cellular level.