[BioC] search archives and annnotate questions

[James W. MacDonald]

Kimpel, Mark William wrote:
> Why is it that so many probesets are annotated with respect to
> chromosome and cytoband, but not to "chromosome location" in the
> annotation packages? I recently performed an analysis using rat2302
> (ver.1.12.0) and passed the results on to a colleague, who
> subsequently told me that he has found locations for quite a few of
> the probesets with location "zero" at the Affy website.
> 
> I tried to see if this question has been addressed before but ran
> into the following problems: 1. the search button on the Bioconductor
> homepage is not working (Firefox 1.5.1). 2. the searchable archives
> site I used to use has been shut down
> (http://files.protsuggest.org/cgi-bin/biocond.cgi). 3. I am not sure
> how to Goggle just the BioC archives
> (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/).

Search functionality is now provided via gmane.

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.science.biology.informatics.conductor

Best,

Jim


> 
> Help in these areas would be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark W. Kimpel MD
> 
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