[GUSDEV] Affymetrix .CEL files

[Dave H. <doc...@gm...>]

I would like to import a number of Affymetrix .CEL files into the GUS
database, which was installed from top of trunk from the GUS svn
repository.  The CEL files each have some text headers, and then binary
data afterwards.  So I suppose they are in CEL Version 4 format.

Doing some search on previous posts, I came across this one:

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=Pine.LNX.4.61.0512141526200.18143%40hera.pcbi.upenn.edu

It seems that at the time of the post (12/2005), the way these .CEL
files would be imported was that the headers would go to one of the
Affymetrix views (AffymetrixMAS4 or AffymetrixMAS5 or AffymetrixCEL),
the actual file would sit in the file system, and we'd insert a row to
the RAD.Quantification table with a URI pointing to the location of the
.CEL file.

Also, looking through the different plugins in both the Supported and
Community folders, it seems LoadBatchArrayResults supports the cel4
format.  Is this the plugin I should use?

Any help would be much appreciated.  Thanks.

Best regards,
Dave Hau