[BioC] metadata - annotation package changes

John Zhang jzhang at jimmy.harvard.edu
Tue Aug 9 15:45:42 CEST 2005


http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/byproduct.affx?

>If you were involved with building the previous releases you can probably 
>tell me where the 
>accession numbers for the previous releases (1.5,1.6,1.7)
>came from.
>Do you actually get them from the Affymetrix annotation files, 
>and if so, which section? For some probe sets different sections
>of the Affymetrix files give different accession numbers.

CSV files for chips under 
http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/byproduct.affx?


>
>Many thanks,
>Maria.
>
>
>On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, John Zhang wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 08:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
>> From: John Zhang <jzhang at jimmy.harvard.edu>
>> To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch, m.stalteri at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk
>> Subject: Re: [BioC] metadata - annotation package changes
>> 
>> Although I was involved in building 1.8, Seth is probably the best one to 
answer 
>> this question. My understanding is that, correct me Seth if I am wrong, a set 
of 
>> fresh base files (probe id to GeneBank accession number mappings extracted 
from 
>> Affymetrix) were used to build the new version of annotation packages.
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> >Hi,
>> >I guess my question is mainly directed to John Zhang and
>> >the other authors/maintainers of the annotation packages
>> >for Affymetrix chips.
>> >
>> >In the latest versions (1.8) of the moe430a and rae230a
>> >packages, the probe set ID-to-accession number mappings
>> >(ACCNUM) are different from those given in previous
>> >versions (1.5, 1.6, 1.7).
>> >
>> >Can someone please explain to me why there has been 
>> >a change?
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >Maria.
>> >
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>> Jianhua Zhang
>> Department of Medical Oncology
>> Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
>> 44 Binney Street
>> Boston, MA 02115-6084
>> 

Jianhua Zhang
Department of Medical Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
44 Binney Street
Boston, MA 02115-6084



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