arjun / chip-ruby

== chip-ruby
 
chip-ruby is a library for working with DNA microarray data

It contains libraries for parsing Affymetrix CHP files in the new binary format
and sample data. Can process Genotyping and Expression console files. Outputs to CSV and YAML formats.

chip-ruby is licensed under GPLv2, however any included code, data, documentation are property of their respective 
owners.

# Author::    Arjun Sanyal (mailto:arjun.sanyal@childrens.harvard.edu)
# Copyright:: Children's Hospital Boston
# License:: GPLv2
 
== Installation

* get git if you don't have it
* git clone git://github.com/arjun/chip-ruby.git
* cd chip-ruby/bin
* ./parse_affy_chp.rb

== Future Work

* Use stringIO for more speed?
* Parse Affymetrix CEL and other files
* Tests
* gem install