[BioC] Converting an Annbuilder object to a dataframe

Daniel Brewer daniel.brewer at icr.ac.uk
Mon Jan 8 13:17:45 CET 2007



Sean Davis wrote:
> On Friday 05 January 2007 10:51, Daniel Brewer wrote:
>> We are trying to use data from arrays that were hybed using tumour DNA
>> for CGH purposes.
> 
> Since you are working with cDNAs, you might want to map them directly using 
> UCSC which aligns ESTs and mRNAs directly to the genome.  This is subtly 
> different from mapping the cDNAs to genes and then mapping those genes to the 
> genome, which is what is done by AnnBuilder.  You can use the UCSC table 
> browser to find the locations of your clones of interest.
> 
> Sean


That sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately it does not appear that
UCSC has any knowledge of Agilent 4100a probes.  Been searching around
to try and get the equivalent information or either the sequence, but
without luck.

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