[BioC] Affymetrix SDK Bioconductor package?

[A.J. Rossini]

Correct.  

On 6/2/05, Kasper Daniel Hansen <k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:
> Just to be really clear, what we are talking about is an interface to
> http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/filesdk/index.affx?terms=no
> which is  a C++ library which can parse CEL, CHP, CDF, BPMAP, BAR files.
> Several of these file formats are already readable by BioC, but I still
> think it is nice to have an interface to an official parsing library.
> 
> The license used is LGPL-2, so there should be no problem there - right?
> 
> Kasper
> 
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 06:47:56AM -0700, Seth Falcon wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > On 21 May 2005, bullard at berkeley.edu wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > Extending Bioconductor's ability to parse binary Affy data sounds like
> > a good thing, as long as there are no license issues with respect to
> > the Affymetrix SDK (as Tony mentioned).
> >
> > If I understand what you've described, the logical place for this
> > functionality would be in the affy package itself (not another package
> > that duplicates existing functionality).  So a good starting point
> > would be to contact Raphael, the affy maintainer (see DESCRIPTION file
> > of affy).
> >
> > In general, this sort of extending/adding-on/improving of existing
> > packages is very much appreciated and possibly even blessed :-)
> >
> > Best Wishes,
> >
> > + seth
> >
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> Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant
> Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
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-tony

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