« FeatureReporter »worksheet / FeatureReporter file - « adr » :

Containing Feature and Reporter data. This file corresponds to the previous ADF format, even though slight modifications have been incorporated (see below) Each row corresponds to a spot in the array : position and biological information on the reporter.

Feature data :

• MetaColumn
• MetaRow
• Column
• Row

Reporter data :

• Reporter Name
• Reporter ControlType
• Reporter BioSequence Type
• Reporter BioSequence Polymer Type
• Reporter BioSequence Database Entry [db-tag]
• Reporter FailType
• Reporter WarningType
• Reporter BioSequence [Actual Sequence]
• Reporter Group [reportergroup tag]

Items in italic are optional. All others are mandatory.
These items are for the common case, Gene Expression application use case.

For ChIP oligo-based and PCR-based application use case, another BioSequence object is added. It is called Assigned gene.

• Assigned_Gene Name
• Assigned_Gene Database Entry [db-tag]

In this case, the « Reporter Name »item is renamed to « Reporter Name [intergenic] », and there are some optional items :

• Chromosome
• Chromosome_band

In addition for the PCR-based use case, there are two optional items :

• Reporter BioSequence [Fwd Primer]
• Reporter BioSequence [Rev Primer]

For CGH use case :

• Species
• Chromosome : non mandatory but highly recommended for CGH
• Chromosome_band : recommended field for CGH