[BioC] Annotation of orthologs

[Alexandre Kuhn]

Hi Nick, the package annotationTools will help you find the human
orthologous gene IDs, based on a microarray-specific annotation file and the
HomoloGene database, for instance. Applicable code examples are provided in
the vignette.
Alexandre

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Schurch [mailto:N.Schurch at dundee.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 9:14 AM
> To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [BioC] Annotation of orthologs
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a bunch of probes identified from a mouse microarray experiment
> that I want to get the equivalent human ortholog gene names (or
> ensembl/entrez ID etc) for. I can't see any fields in the array
> annotation database that will give me human homolog IDs - is there an
> easy way to do this?
> 
> --
> Cheers,
> 
> Nick Schurch
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