agferead

Read Agilent Feature Extraction Software file

Syntax

AGFEData = agferead(File)

Arguments

File Microarray data file generated with the Agilent^® Feature Extraction Software.

Description

AGFEData = agferead(File) reads files generated with the Feature Extraction Software from Agilent microarray scanners and creates a structure (AGFEData) containing the following fields:

Header
Stats
Columns
Rows
Names
IDs
Data
ColumnNames
TextData
TextColumnNames

The Feature Extraction Software takes an image from an Agilent microarray scanner and generates raw intensity data for each spot on the plate.

Examples

Read in a sample Agilent Feature Extraction Software file. Note that the file fe_sample.txt is not provided with the Bioinformatics Toolbox™ software.
```
agfeStruct = agferead('fe_sample.txt')
```

Plot the median foreground.

maimage(agfeStruct,'gMedianSignal');
maboxplot(agfeStruct,'gMedianSignal');

Version History

Introduced before R2006a