[BioC] info su illumina

[Sean Davis]

On 2/7/06 10:45 AM, "Natalie P. Thorne" <npt22 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> 
> See beadarray a developer package of Bioconductor specifically developed
> for analysing both SAM and beadchip data from Illumina.  The package has
> capabilities for reading Tiff files and (using bead center information)
> extracting bead level data rather than the bead summary data provided by
> Illumina.
> 
> You're welcome to forward this to the list, for some reason my responses
> to the list get delayed by a few days (I think because I use a different
> email address to send from).
> 
> Natalie

Thanks, Natalie.  I had missed that one.  I will forward to the list.

Sean

>>> is it possible to analyze illumine arrays with R..?
>>> 
>>> is there a specific package?
>> 
>> As far as I know there is not a specific package for dealing with illumina
>> arrays.  However, they are single-channel arrays, so you can think of them
>> as similar to Affy (in a superficial way).  Reading the data in is pretty
>> simple using read.table.
> 
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