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Bioconductor Affy RMA Anaylsis

The user would like to obtain signal values for all probe sets on all chips.


Steps to obtain CEL files for your project

1)Log in to SBEAMS/Microarray
2)Choose the 'Project Home' button on the left side of the screen
3)Choose the 'Data Download' tab along the top of the page
4)Make sure you have the appropriate project selected in the project chooser drop-down on the top of the page--you should see your Affy chips listed on the page
5)Check the box under CEL for each chip you'd like to analyze
6)Click the 'GET_AFFY_ARRAY_FILES' button underneath the chip listing, and save these somewhere on your computer.
7)Unzip the downloaded file to get the actual CEL files.
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Use the following steps to set up and run R/Bioconductor:

1)R can be downloaded from
2)Bioconductor packages can be installed by running within R:
source("http://www.bioconductor.org/getBioC.R")
getBioC()
3)Create a CEL file table, U:/name_for_analysis.list. The first line is the chip name, second line is always blank and starting with the third line are the CEL file names. Here’s an example:
Mouse430_2

20040811_01_H1_Healthy_Blood_B6-I_PAXgene.CEL
20040811_02_H2p_Healthy_Blood_B6-I_RBClysis_PosFraction.CEL
20040811_03_Healthy_Brain.CEL
20040811_04_IB_Infected_Brain.CEL
20040812_01_H3p_Healthy_Blood_B6-I_noRBClysis_PosFraction.CEL
20040812_02_I1_Infected_Blood_B6-I_PAXgene.CEL
20040812_03_I2p_Infected_Blood_B6-I_RBClysis_PosFraction.CEL
20040812_04_I3p_Infected_Blood_B6-I_noRBClysis_PosFraction.CEL
4)Use the following code to use the affy.rma function:
source("Z:/Affymetrix/bioconductor/source/affy_funcs.R")
# need to substitute in name of directory to which CEL files were saved from SBEAMS
affy.rma("U:/name_for_analysis.list","U:/ name_for_analysis.txt",”/path/to/CEL/files”) 
5)Results are in U:/name_for_analysis.list , columns contained are probeset ID, log2 signal per each chip/probeset, and several annotation fields.