[BioC] expresso: performing RMA on NON-Affy data?

[James W. MacDonald]

Hi Jose,

Do you want to do RMA, or just normalize? The problem with trying to 
wedge things into an AffyBatch is that the affy package will then try to 
find the cdfenv that contains the probe to probeset mappings, so by 
trying to leverage the AffyBatch infrastructure you will have to also 
come up with a fake cdf.

If you don't have probes that make up a probeset, then I'm not sure the 
affy package will be of use here.

Can you give more details?

Best,

Jim



J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> Is there a reasonable manner to coax expresso to normalise data that is 
> not Affymetrix?
> 
> In other words, would it be possible[1] to create an AffyBatch manually, 
> filling the required slots with my own non-Affy data so that Expresso 
> can work on them?
> 
> [1] possible it must be, but the effort required has to be conmensurate 
> with the results I'm after ;-)
> 
> Any other alternative?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Jose
> 

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