[BioC] from rat codelink to human locuslink

[Sean Davis]

Diego Diez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Weiwei Shi wrote:
>
>   
>> hi,
>>
>> I am wondering if bioconductor can help me do some conversion from rat
>> codelink probe id's to human locuslink id's?
>>     
>
> As Sean suggested, you need to convert first codelink ids to some useful
> public id. For this step you can use the codelink annotation packages
> available in the download section for several codelink platforms (GEChip
> BiocViews). They use the information from codelink to map to Genbank,
> Unigene and Entrez Gene id (and to other databases thanks to AnnBuilder).
>   
Just to continue that thought, there is a rat homology package available 
here:

http://bioconductor.org/packages/1.9/data/annotation/html/rnohomology.html

Sean