backgroundCorrectSingleSection {beadarray} | R Documentation

## Background correct an array-section

### Description

Function to perform a basic bead-level background correction using a defined set of foreground and background intensities.

### Usage

    backgroundCorrectSingleSection(BLData, array = 1, fg="Grn", bg="GrnB", newName = "Grn.bc")

### Arguments

`BLData` | a `beadLevelData` object
`array` | the number of the array-section to be corrected
`fg` | the name under which the foreground intensities are stored
`bg` | the name under which the background intensities are stored
`newName` | Name to store the corrected intensities

### Details

This function takes two attributes of a bead-level object and returns that bead-level object with an additional attribute consisting of the difference of the other two. We anticipate this being used as a simple background correction step, returning the difference between foreground and background intensities to be used as the specific intensity associated with a bead.

Functions to perform more advanced background correction steps can easily be constructed after consideration of this function.

### Value

`beadLevelData` object with modified beadData slot for the particular section

### Author(s)

Mark Dunning

### Examples

    ## Not run:

    if(require(beadarrayExampleData)){

      data(exampleBLData)

      head(exampleBLData[[1]])

      for(i in 1:2){
    	  exampleBLData = backgroundCorrectSingleSection(exampleBLData, array=i)
      }

      head(exampleBLData[[1]])

      } else {

      stop("You will need the beadarrayExampleData package to run this example")
    }

    ## End(Not run)

[Package beadarray version 2.38.0 Index]