[BioC] can can affyQAReport (package affyQCReport) be adapted for use with Affy Gene ST arrays that are not incorporated into an affyBatch?
Robert Gentleman
rgentlem at fhcrc.org
Tue Oct 14 18:07:31 CEST 2008
My efforts now are in support of Audrey Kauffmann's arrayQualityMetrics
package, which provide much more comprehensive support for QA on
microarrays. Have you tried it?
best wishes
Robert
Mark Kimpel wrote:
> I've become quite fond of affyQAReport and have numerous examples of cases
> where I have used it to help identify problem arrays that my core facility,
> which uses only Affymetrix tools, have said are fine. I am now using the
> Affy Rat Gene 1.0 ST array and apparently cannot convert it into an
> affyBatch (required as input to affyQAReport) using the packages I have been
> steered to for analysis (oligo and pdInfoBuilder) . Is there another package
> or approach one can use to do QA on these newer chips? I did try hacking
> affyQAReport, but ran into my own limitations when I got to the function qc,
> which sets a cdf environment variable.
>
> Mark
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