[BioC] Annotate package

[Robert Gentleman]

The annotate package does not annotate anything - it provides the  
software infrastructure that is common to all (many, most, ...)  
meta-data packages.
  Meta-data packagess are built by AnnBuilder. It mainly requires as  
input a file with two columns, one with the manufacturer IDS (those  
that are used on the chip) and another set of public ids (eg LocusLink,  
UniGene) etc. and from that you can construct annotation packages that  
look like the Affymetrix ones that we commonly build. We would build  
cDNA if we had access to a widely used set of mappings, but mostly cDNA  
are done locally in small numbers and it is not so useful to have them  
on  a website for the whole world (to say nothing of the workload)

   Robert



On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:52 AM, Yihuan Xu wrote:

> Can 'annotate' package annotate microarray data other than affymetrix?  
> And
> how? Thank you.
>
> Yihuan
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