[this was sent to me offline.  i've created a new thread and will try  
to respond in the next day or two.]


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Frank <[email protected]>
> Date: 2 March 2009 10:19:59 PM
> To: Mark Robinson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: FIRMA score
>
> Hi Mark, Hi everyboy,
>
> I would like to revive this thread and put the focus on the
> visualization of "FIRMA-data" with GenomeGraphs. Maybe the vignette,
> Mark has spoken of earlier, is already somewhere available?
>
> In any case I have some problems I could use help with. If you want to
> use the ExonArray-class in GenomeGraphs you have to provide the
> intensities (or whatsoever values you want to plot) for every probeset
> and the end and start coordinates (and some more stuff). Like already
> said in this thread before, you can find all this in the probeset
> annotation files from affymetrix (link somewhere above) and you can
> import this file with read.csv(...).
>
> But what I'm asking myself, how could you efficiently import this
> file? For the HuEx its around 418 MB and contains over 1.4 million
> lines. On my machine there is no way to import this file. Right now
> I'm trying to build a function that works with chunks and that removes
> all the "unnecessary" columns. But this looks not very convenient to
> me. Isn't there any other way in R to extract only the rows of
> interest, like you could do with grep under Unix? The grep and scan
> functions in R don't seem to work on files that are not already read
> in, or do I miss something?
>
> Maybe someone has a script to post here, that does nearly the
> following:
> Suppose you have an experiment with control/treatment and n chips for
> each group. Your ResidualSet is stored in "rs", "csN" holds the
> normalized intensities and "fs" the FirmaScores. For a given ensembl-
> gene (e.g. "ENSG00000060237") the script should provide all the needed
> values to create the object
> exonarray<-new("ExonArray", intensity = ..., probeStart = ,
> probeEnd=..., probeId = ..., nProbes = ...) in GenomeGraphs (where
> "intensity=..." should plot the FirmaScores for instance).
> My feelings are, that one could do a lot of mistakes here when putting
> all these values together. So some advice from someone who knows how
> to do it, would we superb.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help and feedback,
> Frank

------------------------------
Mark Robinson
Epigenetics Laboratory, Garvan
Bioinformatics Division, WEHI
e: [email protected]
e: [email protected]
p: +61 (0)3 9345 2628
f: +61 (0)3 9347 0852
------------------------------





--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
When reporting problems on aroma.affymetrix, make sure 1) to run the latest 
version of the package, 2) to report the output of sessionInfo() and 
traceback(), and 3) to post a complete code example.


You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"aroma.affymetrix" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/aroma-affymetrix?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to