[BioC] metadata for Affymetrix Poplar array

[Dick Beyer]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for responding so quickly.  Into the trenches with AnnBuilder!

Cheers,
Dick
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, James W. MacDonald wrote:

> Dick Beyer wrote:
>> Will there be a metadata file available for the Affymetrix poplar
>> array?  There is poplarcdf and poplarprobe, but no poplar,
>> "Affymetrix Poplar Genome Array Annotation Data (poplar)".
>
> I don't think poplar is popular enough ;-D
>
> Seriously though, there is a limit on the number of annotation packages that 
> can be made (time is money and all that), so for a lot of chips there probably 
> will never be an annotation package.
>
> The expectation is that the end user will use AnnBuilder or possibly biomaRt to 
> do the annotation themselves (not that I think it would be trivial in this 
> case).
>
> Best,
>
> Jim
>
>
>> 
>> Thanks much, Dick 
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