[BioC] Combining HGU133A & HGU133B data

[Laurent Gautier]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 06:26:15PM +0800, Adaikalavan RAMASAMY wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have been asked to analyze the data where samples were hybridized on
> both HGU133A and HGU133B Affymetrix chips. One option is to analyze the
> A and B chips seperately but this is not desirable.
> 
> The other option is to combine both (using something akin to "rbind") to
> combine these data. I think it is better to combine the results after
> rma as different background correction needs be applied. 
> 
> This method however does have its problems with the genes redundant
> between A and B chip (there are 2000+ genes that overlap both chips).
> 
> Can anyone suggest what is the best way to deal with this problem ? Does
> anyone have any experience or seen publications combining data from two
> different array formats.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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Wolgang Huber and Robert Gentleman have certainly a word to say about
that. Did you check the function 'combine' in the package 'matchprobes'
(section 'devel') ?


L.