[Bioc-devel] new package: annotationTools

[Alexandre Kuhn]

Dear Bioconductor developers,

I have collected a series of functions useful for annotating microarrays and
finding orthologs using flat file databases into an R package called
'annotationTools'.

Affymetrix annotation files (e.g. 'HG-U133_Plus_2_annot.csv'), Affymetrix
ortholog file (e.g. 'HG-U133_Plus_2_ortholog.csv') or the HomoloGene
database ('homologene.data') are examples of files that can be used in
conjunction with the functions in annotationTools.

The package is available from
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/html/annotationTools.html

Bioconductor is already providing several elegant solutions for annotation
(e.i. meta-data packages, biomaRt package). However, I feel that many users
rely on annotations available as text files such that the functions in the
package annotationTools might be considerered as a complementary solution.

Thanks in advance for your feedback/comments.

Best,
Alexandre