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aroma.affymetrix (version 3.2.2)

computeAffinities.AffymetrixCdfFile: Calculates probe affinities from sequence

Description

Calculates probe affinities from sequence.

Adapted from compute.affinities in the gcrma package. Attempts to find the tab-separated probe sequence file associated with a particular CDF, and matches sequence to probe index in order to assign an affinity to each probe.

Usage

# S3 method for AffymetrixCdfFile
computeAffinities(this, safe=TRUE, force=FALSE, verbose=FALSE, ...)

Value

Returns a numeric

vector of (log2) probe affinities, of length equal to the total number of features on the array.

Arguments

safe

A logical argument passed to getProbeSequenceData().

force

If FALSE, cached results is returned, if available.

verbose

See Verbose.

...

Not used.

Author

Ken Simpson, Henrik Bengtsson, Mark Robinson