[BioC] some basic questions

[Richard Friedman]

Dear Anand,

	

On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:04 AM, anand mt [guest] wrote:

>
> Hi all..
>
> i have following questions.
>
> 1) How many probesets represent a gene on microarray chip ?

See manufactures literature for chip.

>
> 2) How do i access raw intesity value of probes (before  
> normalization) ?
>
> 3) Do i need to read cdf file to do that ??
>

2 & 3. Follow the worked examples with affylmGUI,



> 4) After pre-processing the data and normalization, we generally go  
> for significance tests and gene grouping. My question is, if i group  
> the genes before performing  significance test (say now i have 3  
> groups based on apoptosis,cell cycle, DNA replication) and then  
> perform significance test within each group, will the results be  
> same as that of conventional way ?? Is it a valid method to do so??
>

I don't understand this question, but get a list of differentially  
expressed genes first,
The onto-express and pathway-express web sites for which I sent you  
the  links in
the course handouts I sent you should enable you to do a good post- 
gene list analysis.

Best wishes,
Rich

> Sorry if my questions are silly.
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