I am examining the TCGA Methylation (Glioblastoma multiforme) dataset, to assess whether we can use it as a means for identification of potential biomarkers for clinical development. The issue I have is that we, ourselves, don't (at least yet) run our own chips here, nor have we done any Illumina assay chip designs.
Is there a readily-available public reference-list database that I've missed, which will allow me to bridge from the Illumina Human Methylation 27/450 CG# identifier codes back to standard NCBI Gene/RefSeq? I recall that, in the early days of TaqMan assay development, the exact targets of the SNP assays were all proprietary, and the marriage of those assays to Illumina sequence identifiers was sometimes challenging, if one needed to identify actual targets to assess biological plausibility/relevance...