matchprobes: a Bioconductor package for the sequence-matching of microarray probe elements.
The nucleotide sequences of the probes on a microarray can be used for a variety of purposes in the analysis of microarray experiments. We describe software and a paradigm for the creation of data packages for curating, distributing and working with probe sequence data in a uniform, across-types-of-microarrays manner. While the implementation is specific to the Bioconductor project, the ideas and general strategies are more general and could be easily adopted by other projects.


BACKGROUND
The R package matchprobes is available under LGPL at http://www.bioconductor.org


BACKGROUND
The package contains documentation in the form of a vignette and manual pages.
Department of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center, INF 580, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany. w.huber@dkfz.de
Wolfgang
W
Huber
Robert
R
Gentleman
D000465:Algorithms; D015342:DNA Probes / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000235:genetics*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA / Q000379:methods*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012984:Software
D015342:DNA Probes