[BioC] Cel processing question

James W. MacDonald jmacdon at med.umich.edu
Fri Jun 20 17:06:11 CEST 2008


Hi Iain,

IAIN GALLAGHER wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> This is not technically a bioconductor problem but... I have been
> informed that during the last year or so Affymetrix have changed the
> way they make / generate .CEL files. I was wondering whether this is
> likely to affect the results one would obtain running an analysis
> from .CEL files onwards.

If you mean the change from ASCII to binary format, this happened a few 
years ago. There are some facilities to change between the formats, but 
this should be unnecessary, as most tools that you are likely to use 
will use either format without complaint.

Best,

Jim


> 
> Thanks
> 
> Iain
> 
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