Creating a New Annotation Package using SQLForge

In order to use SQLForge you really only need to have one kind of information and that is a list of paired IDs. These IDs are to be stored in a tab delimited file that is formatted in the same way that they used to be for the older AnnBuilder package. For those who are unfamiliar with the AnnBuilder package, this just means that there are two columns separated by a tab where the column on the left contains probe or probeset identifiers and the column on the right contains some sort of widely accepted gene accession. This file should NOT contain a header. SQLForge will then use these IDs along with it’s own support databases to make an AnnotationDbi package for you. Here is how these IDs should look if you were to read them into R: