Thanks for your comments. The module is all about working with these;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
I'll update the documentation before the next release, and add a line
of text including the wiki link to make it clear just exactly what
the modules do - and hopefully prevent any curious Perl developers
waste time trying to make really tiny arrays!
Cheers,
Chris.
On 7 Feb 2008, at 21:21, MARKSTOS via RT wrote:
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> Thu Feb 07 16:21:46 2008: Request 33000 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by MARKSTOS
> Queue: Microarray
> Subject: wish: clarify what a microarray is.
> Broken in: 0.33
> Severity: Wishlist
> Owner: Nobody
> Requestors: MARKSTOS@cpan.org
> Status: new
> Ticket <URL:
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33000 >
>
>
> Wikipedia has several different definitions for what a microarray is:
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microarray
>
> It would be great if one of the first thing the documentation did
> was to
> define what a microarray is, at least for the purpose of this module.
>
> Most Perl programmers will think it would be "like a Perl array...only
> smaller".
>
> You seem to have mind something rather different, and very specific.
>
> Mark
>
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