Alternate Package Name For Pd Database Using Pdinfobuilder

Question

[David Quigley]

I have generated a novel package database based on the pd.mogene.1.1.st.v1 platform using the pdInfoBuilder package in bioconductor. I first generate an AffyGenePDInfoPkgSeed object and pass this to makePdInfoPackage(). The resulting package is created correctly, but it has the name "pd.mogene.1.1.st.v1". I wish to give the package a new name so I can distinguish it from the standard package of the same name. How can I specify the name of this new package?

The answer is apparently not "pass a chipName parameter into the seed object with your new name" because this doesn't do anything to the package name.

Answer 1

[David Quigley]

Okay, here's the answer in case anyone ever needs the wisdom of the ancients some day: If you rewrite the chip_type (and possibly lib_set_name) header line for the CLF, MPS, and PGF files used to build the new package you can affect the package name.