[base] import of affymetrix data - which approach

2007-08-10 Thread Reha Yildirimman
Hello, like some other people I am trying to import data from affymetrix CEL files. Searching the archive I have read that people use the RMAExpress and PLIER plugins. As far as I understood the plug-in extracts/calculates the intensities but where are those data stored, since the associated raw

Re: [base] import of affymetrix data - which approach

2007-08-10 Thread Nicklas Nordborg
Reha Yildirimman wrote: > I have another approach and if that seems ineffective to you please > drop me a line! We also had that approach to begin with. However we were a bit worried about database performance since the Affymtrix chips contains a lot probes. Since most tools needed the CEL and

Re: [base] import of affymetrix data - which approach

2007-08-10 Thread Jari Häkkinen
Hi, The plier and rmaexpress plug-ins calculates the probeset expression values using information from the cel/cdf files. The plugins are presented on the BASE plugin site http://baseplugins.thep.lu.se/wiki/se.lu.thep.affymetrix How the expression values are calculated is presented elsewhere (