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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 email, Aron C Eklund2 email, Brigham H Mecham1 email, Isaac S Kohane1 email and Zoltan Szallasi1 email

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

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

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

Published: 25 April 2005

Additional files

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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