[Bioc-devel] [BioC] package for human ST gene arrays?

Benilton Carvalho bcarvalh at jhsph.edu
Tue Oct 30 00:31:54 CET 2007


Those are great news... have been waiting for this for a while! let  
us know how things go.
b

On Oct 29, 2007, at 6:58 PM, Kasper Daniel Hansen wrote:

> We have been a bit slow on that end, mainly because
> 1) while there is code in the SDK for parsing PGF, the interface is  
> different from the usual one - in other words Affy has added code  
> and has not bothered to fully add the interface.
> 2) none of us have been using it
>
> Well, it seems that 2) is no longer true, so expect some  
> development on that front.
>
> Kasper
>
> On Oct 28, 2007, at 2:18 PM, Benilton Carvalho wrote:
>
>> Affymetrix has the parsers on their SDK, which is used by affxparser.
>>
>> It would be great if the PGF parsers were exposed on affxparser....
>>
>> b
>>
>> On Oct 28, 2007, at 5:11 PM, cstrato wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Ben
>>>
>>> Reading your response I do not have an answer, but a question:
>>> Do you think it is worth sticking with unsupported CDF-files?
>>> Wouldn't it be better to move somehow to PGF-files just in
>>> case that in the future Affymetrix may no longer supply CDF-files?
>>>
>>> Using PGF-files would have the advantage, that people need
>>> no longer provide alternative CDF-files but only updated
>>> annotation files.
>>>
>>> I have no solution, but maybe the information from CDF and
>>> PGF files could be moved to SQLite, just as the annotation
>>> did?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Christian
>>>
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