[BioC] Affymetrix SDK Bioconductor package?

[A.J. Rossini]

Sure it's a good idea (under the constraints/caveats of licensing,
support, etc).  Why not?

On 6/1/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> Is there really no-one who thinks it is a good idea to integrate the
> Affymetrix SDK for reading various file formats, into Bioconductor?
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 10:58:19AM -0700, James Bullard wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, we have been working for the last month or so on integrating the
> > Affymetrix parsing SDK 2.0 into an R package. We began because we had a
> > CDF file which would not parse with the existing libraries in
> > Bioconductor (the problem turned out to be in the CDF file itself). In
> > any case, we have spent a good amount of time on providing an interface
> > to this package in R, specifically duplicating the interfaces which are
> > currently available in Bioconductor to the CDF, CEL, CHP, BPMAP, and BAR
> > files (where relevant). One of the nice things about the library is that
> > binary formats are also accepted so the same interface can parse both
> > text and binary transparently. Also, it should be much easier to absorb
> > new library changes when Affymetrix releases new SDKs and file formats.
> >
> > The library still needs some work, but before I spend a *lot* more time
> > on it I wanted to know 1.) if people thought this would be good thing to
> > have and 2.) if someone was already working on integrating these libraries.
> >
> > We are hopeful that people will think this is a good idea - we cannot
> > see any reason why this would not be a good addition to Bioconductor,
> > and would very much like to finish the work with the blessing of the
> > BioC community.
> >
> > Thanks, jim
> >
> > --
> > James Bullard
> > bullard at berkeley.edu
> > 760.267.0986
> >
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> --
> Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant
> Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
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-- 
best,
-tony

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A.J. Rossini
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