Is there any free software for analyzing microarray data of affymetrix platform? I am aware about IPA. Its subscription is too expensive. Thanks in advance
There are also extensive tools for microarray analysis in the Bioconductor package for the R statistics language. They are completely free, but require you to be comfortable using a command line and exercising a bit of programming logic.
According to my experience R and Bioconductor would be best as pointed by Mr. Miguel, I would recommend to take this tutorial it helped me a lot with my Agilent and Affymetrix data both.
In my opinion best way to analyze Affymetrix microarray data would be R+Bioconductor. However if you want to get results fast you can use TAC and EC both provided for free by Affymetrix. It is a trade of becouse with R you can do anything but you need to know about programming in R. On the other hand with TAC+EC you dont have to have any programming skills but you can do much less with results.