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Redefinition of Affymetrix probe sets by sequence overlap with cDNA microarray probes reduces cross-platform inconsistencies in cancer-associated gene expression measurements

Scott L Carter1, Aron C Eklund2, Brigham H Mecham1, Isaac S Kohane1 and Zoltan Szallasi1*

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1 Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115 USA

2 Laboratory of Functional Genomics, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 65 Landsdowne Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2005, 6:107 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-107

Published: 25 April 2005

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Additional File 1:

ZIP of 4 files allowing the remapping Affymetrix probe-sets described in this manuscript. These files can be used with the "altcdfenvs" package in Bioconductor to implement the redefinition of probe-sets based on sequence-matching with each of the 4 cDNA datasets described.

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