[BioC] Read.maimages question

[Gordon K Smyth]

> Hi
>
> If I read in multiple arrays with the read.maimages() function, and set
> up "Flags" as one of my annotation columns,

Flags are converted into numeric weights. They would not become an "annotation column".

> does that mean that each of
> my arrays will be associated with it's individual genepix flags?

Yes, of course, the flags are associated with individual spots.

> Or are
> the annotations just read in from one of the arrays, and those
> annotations then used for all of the arrays in the RGList object?

No, why would you thihk that?  That wouldn't make a lot of sense.

Gordon

> Thanks
>
> Mick