[BioC] convert gene name to Affy ID

[Marc Carlson]

And if it's not there, you can try to follow the instructions in this 
vignette from the AnnotationForge package to generate an appropriate 
chip package:

www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/bioc/vignettes/AnnotationForge/inst/doc/SQLForge.pdf 



   Marc



On 12/13/2012 03:46 AM, J.delasHeras at ed.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Julia,
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> if you check the list of annotation packages already made in the 
> Bioconductor page
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> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/release/BiocViews.html#___AnnotationData 
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> you may find your array there.
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> I don't know if this will be your array, but just for illustration 
> purposes, I see that the array "Affymetrix Drosophila Genome 2.0 Array 
> annotation data (chip drosophila2)" corresponds to the package 
> 'drosophila2.db'
> If you download and install that, and look at the user guide for that 
> package:
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> http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.11/data/annotation/manuals/drosophila2.db/man/drosophila2.db.pdf 
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> you should be able quite easily to match affymetrix ids to gene names, 
> locations, and many other things.
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> I hope this helps a bit.
> I have been lucky that all the arrays I have used were already 
> annotated into a package :)
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