[BioC] Loess normalization for Agilent chips

[A.J. Rossini]

Why not just use Limma and the corresponding tools?

It's FAR easier that way.   That way you actually get what you pay
for, rather than far less...



"Malard, Joel M" <JM.Malard at pnl.gov> writes:

> I am struggling to get data from Agilent cDNA arrays into BioConductor.
> It seems to me much easier to get the data in affy's normalize.loess()
> than in the other cDNA array packages. 
>
> Given that "one who get a bargain get what he pays for", does anyone has
> comments, recommendations or warnings to share about using an Affy
> normalization procedure on cDNA data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel M. Malard, Ph.D.
> Scientist IV
> Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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