GEOquery

GEOquery is a software tool developed to access the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) directly from BioConductor, an open-source project built in the R statistical programming environment for analyzing and comprehending genomic data. GEOquery eliminates the formatting and parsing problems that have made analyzing GEO data labor-intensive in the past, establishing a bridge between GEO and BioConductor. By providing easy access to GEO data from BioConductor, GEOquery enables new analyses of GEO data using novel statistical and bioinformatic tools. This will increase the efficiency with which biologically important conclusions can be drawn from published genomic data. GEOquery is available as part of the BioConductor project.