I am looking for a good way to generate a list (at least 1,000) of
affymetrix microarray users in the industry, in the US, Candada, UK,
France, and Swtizerland. Users in academia are relatively easy to
find, but researchers within companies do not publish as extensively.
The ideal would be the Affymetrix client list, but, obviously, it's
not easy to come by. Minimum information necessary is the name of the
individual, job title, and organization.
What is needed here, is a METHOD which can be easily implemented by
people who have relatively little knowledge of the technologies and
the industry. It is alright if it is somewhat labor-intensive, but the
end result needs to be a list of at least 1,000 affymetrix microarray
users in the life sciences (pharma, biotech, etc.) industry. |
Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
08 Nov 2005 02:40 PST
looshkie-ga,
Thanks for clarifying what you're after, here.
For starters, please have a look at the following link, and let me
know what you think of the results:
://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-04,GGLD:en&q=affymetrix+%22genome+array+OR+arrays%22+OR+%22expression+analysis%22+contact++site%3Aedu+
This was an effort to construct a search that would identify
Affymetrix expression analysis users at universities (I can focus on
the corporate side later on).
Are these results useful to you?
As you suspected, there would be a good amount of labor involved to
visit each site and extract the organization and the contact person's
name...for the most part, though, the information is easily available
on most of the sites I spot-checked.
Of course, you could also get other contact information such as email
address -- I noticed that title is not often available. Presumably,
you have the person-power at your end to undertake this task.
Take a look, and let me know how close (or how far!) this is from
meeting your needs.
With some additional feedback, it may be possible to refine a search
protocol and a method to get you your list.
pafalafa-ga
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Clarification of Question by
looshkie-ga
on
08 Nov 2005 04:00 PST
Dear pafalafa,
Thank you for your interest in the question. I would like to clarify
that we have already done a fair amount of looking into solving this,
and have found several sources for finding the academic users. The
most useful of them were some intelligently constructed google
searches which lead to the micorarray SIG at the NIH and directories
of genetics researchers. This yielded fairly large numbers of
academics of whom a certain percentage is engaged in expression
analysis. The real target, however, are the users in the industry. At
this point even a list of companies we KNOW are engaged in expression
analysis using the Affymetrix microarray would be of great help.
We do have a lot of manpower available to sift through raw data, but
the protocols for doing it have to be very clearly articulated.
Another constraint is that we will not use any legally or ethically
questionable ways of obtaining the information, such as the one
suggested in a comment by awsomeo3000.
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