="http://bioconductor.org/packages/GEOquery">GEOquery</a></em> to query GEO as a database (ie. looking for datasets); more information in the package vignette.</p>
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<h2>Other packages</h2>
<p>There are other packages for accessing other online repositories with public data; they include <em><a href="http://bioconductor.org/packages/SRAdb">SRAdb</a></em> for the Short Read Archive (SRA) and <em><a href="http://bioconductor.org/packages/ArrayExpress">Arra