[BioC] Quantile normalization without using affyBatch

[James W. MacDonald]

Shinhan Shiu wrote:
> I am working on Arabidopsis tiling array data. I want to adjust the 
> intensity based on GC content then do normalization. But the CDF and CEL 
> files are not available so the sequences and raw intensities are 
> downloaded from Gene Expression Omnibus instead.
> 
> I have extracted codes from gcrma and the hacked version works fine for 
> background correction and affinity adjustment. I run into trouble, 
> however, when I try to do quantile normalization.
> 
> The method "normalize" takes an affyBatch object but I am working with a 
> matrix of numbers. I wonder if there is any work around or other methods 
> I can use.

How about normalizeBetweenArrays() in the limma package?

Jim


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>  University of Chicago
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