[BioC] Re: offer from I Neuhaus to create a BMS response; keep in core, please

[Rafael A. Irizarry]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Robert Gentleman wrote:

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> Vis a vis the phone call, it was about 1 hour long, it was slightly
> focussed on marketing hype on their side and some substantial,
> although peculiar concerns came out. One of the major concerns that
> they have is that if they make their formats public then anyone can
> create a "CEL" file of the right format and make it look very much
> like one that they generated. They believe that this would lead to
> substantial confusion. To some extent I agree with them and I think
> that I would be inclined to discourage any such activity, and I hope
> BioC as a group would too (since it really spreads confusion, when
> opening a CEL file we want to be pretty sure where it came from and
> what is in it).
> 

i just rememebered, in the affy package there is a function called 

write.celfile

should we remove this?


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