An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: not available Url: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/bioconductor/attachments/20051115/ 967328ba/attachment.pl

Hi Weinong, There is a BioC package called "MergeMaid" which might be useful to you. HTH, Ting-Yuan ______________________________________ Ting-Yuan Liu Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA, USA ______________________________________ We should live by the second, as each second is a critical period to pass through. ---Master Cheng Yen On Tue, 15 Nov 2005, weinong han wrote: > Hi, Everybody, > > Matching of identifiers is an important component when meta analysis > are implemented in the microarray data sets from different labs and > different technologies. > > As to matching of identifiers, at least two methods are suggested: > > 1. cluster ID and gene names were assigned to all of the cDNA clones > and Affymetrix probes based on UniGene; > > 2. using accession numbers provided by Affymetrix and other > manufacturers and mapped them to the current version of the UniGene database; > > Some use RefSeq identifiers. Would you have the experiences of meta > analysis on microarray data sets? Any advice and suggestions will be much > appreciatedon how to match identifiers and how to choose the suitable > statistical methods in meta analysis . > > What packages include complete procedures of meta analysis of > microarray data sets? > > Thanks again. > > > Best Regards > > Han Weinong > hanweinong at yahoo.com > > > --------------------------------- > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >