[Biodevelopers] Linking Affymetrix gene codes to Gene Ontology terms

[Jeff Gentry]

> I've been looking into ways to link-up Affymetrix gene codes to Gene Ontology 
> terms. This might seem reasonabley straight foward but I've been having some 
> difficulties. My approach has been to use the NCI's MatchMiner tool to 
> generate gene names or GeneBank GI ids which I can then link into the GO terms 
> throught the association files on the GO consortium's site. Is anyone familiar 
> with this kind of problem? Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated.

We have code to handle these problems in the Bioconductor project
(www.bioconductor.org).  Specifically, Jianhua Zhang
(jzhang at jimmy.harvard.edu) has put a lot of work into packages for
Bioconductor to handle this exact problem.  

-Jeff