baseCode.dataFilter
Interface Filter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractFilter, AffymetrixProbeNameFilter, RowAbsentFilter, RowAffyNameFilter, RowMissingFilter, RowNameFilter

public interface Filter

An interface representing the functionality of a class that can filter 2-d matrix-based data by row-oriented criteria.

Copyright (c) 2004 Columbia University

Version:

$Id: Filter.java,v 1.8 2004/07/27 03:18:58 pavlidis Exp $

Author:

Pavlidis

Method Summary

NamedMatrix

filter(NamedMatrix data) Filter the data

Method Detail

filter

public NamedMatrix filter(NamedMatrix data)

Filter the data

Parameters:

data - a NamedMatrix. Some types of filters require that this be of a particular type of implementation of the Filter interface.

Returns:

The resulting filtered matrix