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Get mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA specific for probes

I currently need to map the probe to their types of RNA (eg. mRNA, miRNA, lncRNA) on GEO data from Affymetrix Human Genome U133 Plus 2.0 Array. I found a page on NCBI presents the probes with corresponding information but I cannot control how to extract all of the data from their descriptions. I need some help on this or another way to get the information of specific RNA from the table of probes? Your help is really appreciated. Thank you!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GPL570

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You can convert Affymetrix probe IDs to gene symbol here:

https://biodbnet-abcc.ncifcrf.gov/db/db2db.php

I could be wrong but I don't believe Affymetrix has done much with miRNAs. However, the gene symbols will start with "MIR" if so.

Thank you, do we have a tool in R to help to convert to gene type? just like "gene type" in here:

[Gene Symbol: HSPA6] [Locus Tag: ] [Chromosome: 1] [Map Location: 1q23.3] [Description: heat shock protein family A (Hsp70) member 6] [Gene Type: protein-coding]

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