[BioC] Finding Annotation of CEL file formats

[cstrato]

Dear Gundula

If you have an Affymetrix CEL-file, e.g. Test3.CEL, you can do on Linux:
head -n17 Test3.CEL

For CEL-files of type text or xda you will see on line 15:
DatHeader=[12..40151]  Fetal 3:CLS=1167 RWS=1167 XIN=3  YIN=3  
VE=17        2.0 08/16/01 17:28:31       Test3.1sq                  6
This tells you that the CEL-file uses Test3.CDF as CDF file (Test3.1sq) 
and hybridized a "Fetal" tissue

For CEL-files of type Calvin you will see a  line:
affymetrix-dat-heade[6..38103]  Fetal 5:CLS=1167 RWS=1167 XIN=3  YIN=3  
VE=17        2.0 08/16/01 17:32:06       Test3.1sq                  6
This has the same information as above.

Then you can check on the Affymetrix web-site, for which organism the 
CDF-file was created:
http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/byproduct.affx?cat=exparrays

Hope this information is helpful
Regards
Christian
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Gundala Viswanath wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Given any CEL file, such as these:
>
> http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/pub/Chaix2008/CEL/supplCELdata.zip
>
> With BioConductor Is there a way we can find:
>
> 1. Which organism they come from?
> 2. Which organism's tissue they come from?
> 3. What are the probe names/gene name involved?
>
> I looked at "affy" package but I can't seem to find
> ways to get what I wanted above. But maybe I am wrong.
>
> - Gundala Viswanath
> Jakarta - Indonesia
>
> PS: Original URL for the data is this
> http://bioinf.boku.ac.at/pub/Chaix2008
>
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