Package provides miRNASeq datasets from The Cancer Genome Atlas Project for
all cohorts types from http://gdac.broadinstitute.org/.
Data were downloaded using RTCGA-package and contain snapshots for
the date: 2015-11-01. The process is described here:
http://rtcga.github.io/RTCGA/.
Use cases, examples and information about datasets in RTCGA.data
family can be found here: browseVignettes("RTCGA"). miRNASeq data format
is explained here https://wiki.nci.nih.gov/display/TCGA/miRNASeq#miRNASeq-DataOverview.
There is one extra column "machine" in each dataset which describes a machine that
produced dataset. It can be: Illumina Genome Analyzer, Illumina HiSeq 2000 or both.
Converting RTCGA.miRNASeq datasets from data.frames to Bioconductor classes is explained here convertTCGA.