[BioC] LimmaGUI spot type files

[Gordon Smyth]

At 05:40 PM 27/07/2004, Elizabeth Brooke-Powell wrote:
>Gordon,
>
>Just one point of clarification, do you mean the order of spot types must 
>be like this:
>
>SpotType
>ID
>Name
>Color
>Control
>*
>*
>orange
>Est
>TgEST*
>*
>black
>Vector
>Bluescript*
>*
>yellow
>Empty
>*
>unknown
>red
>Water
>*
>Water
>blue
>
>As opposed to this:
>
>
>SpotType
>ID
>Name
>Color
>Est
>TgEST*
>*
>black
>Vector
>Bluescript*
>*
>yellow
>Empty
>*
>unknown
>red
>Water
>*
>Water
>blue
>Control
>*
>*
>orange

Yes. More general must go first.
Gordon

>Thank you for your help,
>
>Liz
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Gordon Smyth [mailto:smyth at wehi.edu.au]
>Sent: 27 July 2004 08:07
>To: Elizabeth Brooke-Powell
>Cc: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
>Subject: Re: [BioC] LimmaGUI spot type files
>
>At 09:42 PM 26/07/2004, Elizabeth Brooke-Powell wrote:
> >Hi there,
> >
> >I was wondering if someone might be able to answer what I hope is a very
> >simple question about LimmaGUI's spot type files.
> >Do you have to type the full name in the file or can you use partial names
> >with an asterisk? For example all of my gene IDs always start with TgEST
> >followed by various numbers, can I type TgEST* to identify all genes and
> >then * for all controls? All of my controls have different sorts of names.
>
>Yes, this will work. However you must put the * for controls before the
>TgEST* line in your spot types file.
>
>Gordon
>