I am using the DrugMatrix data to do analysis. For every drug tested, there are two to three CEL data (each drug of the same dose and the same frequency is repeated in 3 rats). My approach is to get the average of these repeated CEL data before normalization. May I know is this an appropriate approach? If this is appropriate, what package or function should I use?
Just to make it clear, you mean, if there is ten drugs, each with triplicate, so i have to use affy or oligo to treat the 30 cel files together, then look at every drugs while analyzing using Limma? What should i do if i am comparing two groups of drugs, with 5 on each, an each with triplicate? Still okay if i use limma?