Use the _dbInfo() function to find out what your annotation package is built
against.  Here's the result for version 2.4.5:

> library(hgu133plus2.db)
> hgu133plus2_dbInfo()
              name
                value
1  DBSCHEMAVERSION
                  2.1
2         DBSCHEMA
         HUMANCHIP_DB
3         ORGANISM
         Homo sapiens
4          SPECIES
                Human
5     MANUFACTURER
           Affymetrix
6         CHIPNAME                                                Human
Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array
7  MANUFACTURERURL
http://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/byproduct.affx?product=hg-u133-plus
8     EGSOURCEDATE
            2010-Sep7
9     EGSOURCENAME
          Entrez Gene
10     EGSOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA
11       CENTRALID
             ENTREZID
12           TAXID
                 9606
13    GOSOURCENAME
        Gene Ontology
14     GOSOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.geneontology.org/pub/go/godatabase/archive/latest-lite/
15    GOSOURCEDATE
             20100904
16  GOEGSOURCEDATE
            2010-Sep7
17  GOEGSOURCENAME
          Entrez Gene
18   GOEGSOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/DATA
19  KEGGSOURCENAME
          KEGG GENOME
20   KEGGSOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.genome.jp/pub/kegg/genomes
21  KEGGSOURCEDATE
            2010-Sep7
22    GPSOURCENAME                                       UCSC Genome
Bioinformatics (Homo sapiens)
23     GPSOURCEURL
ftp://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/hg19
24    GPSOURCEDATE
           2010-Mar22
25   IPISOURCENAME                                                 The
International Protein Index
26    IPISOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/IPI/current
27   IPISOURCEDATE
           2010-Aug19
28    ENSOURCEDATE
            2010-Aug5
29    ENSOURCENAME
              Ensembl
30     ENSOURCEURL
ftp://ftp.ensembl.org/pub/current_fasta


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:41 AM, David Iles <D.E.Iles@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Can anyone point me to a URL where I can obtain an overview of the sources
> of the data incorporated in the current version of hgu133plus2.db? I saw to
> my horror that the actual probesets are based on a really obsolete human
> genome assembly (2003), which has changed significantly over the years. As
> have also genes, gene locations, genomic intervals, RefSeq/UniGene entries
> etcetcetc......
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
> Dr David Iles
> Institute for Integrative and Comparative Biology
> University of Leeds
> Leeds LS2 9JT
>
> d.e.iles@leeds.ac.uk
>
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