title: readat: An R package for reading and working with SomaLogic ADAT files.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  SomaLogic's SOMAscan™ assay platform allows the analysis of the relative abundance of over 1300 proteins directly from biological matrices such as blood plasma and serum. The data resulting from the assay is provided in a proprietary text-based format not easily imported into R.
  
  
  RESULTS
  readat is an R package for working with the SomaLogic ADAT file format. It provides functionality for importing, transforming and annotating data from these files. The package is free, open source, and available on Bioconductor and Bitbucket.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  readat integrates into both Bioconductor and traditional R workflows, rendering it easy to make use of ADAT files.
authors.affiliation: Proteomics Core, Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, PO Box 24144, Doha, State of Qatar.
authors.forename: Richard J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Cotton
authors.affiliation: Proteomics Core, Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar, PO Box 24144, Doha, State of Qatar. jog2030@qatar-med.cornell.edu.
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Graumann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000097:blood*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen / Q000097:blood*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone; D017430:Prostate-Specific Antigen
keywords: ADAT; Bioconductor; Dynamic range; Proteomics; R; Software; SomaLogic