Low-level function to read BGX files

Description

Reads BGX files (array design information) from Illumina expression arrays.

Usage

readBGX(file)

Arguments

Details

Illumina provide probe annotation for expression arrays as either tab separated text files or as files with the extension .bgx. BGX files are infact just gzipped versions of the text files. This function reads such files and returns a list with two entries, the first containing the target-probe information and the second containing details of the control probes.

Value

A list.

Author(s)

Mike Smith. Based losely on code developed by Mark Dunning available in beadarray~1.16.0.

Results