Microarray package

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A collection of Perl modules for manipulating some microarray data formats, mostly Affymetrix. This package was started by Allen Day.

Package Status

When asked in January 2007 Allen suggested people may want to use the "affy" packages in Bioconductor instead (read that email and this email).
A possible new direction to take these modules could be using them as a bridge between Bioconductor data analyses and various BioPerl object models (i.e. Bio::Seq, Bio::Seq::RichSeq, etc.). Maybe some bioperl-run-based wrappers, bioperl-db adaptors?.
Christopher Jones has published an article in Bioinformatics about his Microarray perl module in CPAN.
Another option for working with Affymetrix data files is the Affymetrix Power Tools, as mentioned by Steve Chervitz in this bioperl-l thread.

The latest code

The latest, and not completely tested, code can be viewed here:

You can download it by following the instructions on the main Subversion page. The repository name is bioperl-microarray.