Convert Cotton Probe ID to Gene Symbol I am new to bioinformatics, my background is in Electrical Engineering. I am trying to convert Affymetrix Cotton Probe IDs to gene symbols. I have a gene expression dataset and I need the expressions for only certain genes. So in the dataset, I have a probe id such as Ghi.10301.1.S1_s_at, how can I get the gene symbol associated with it? Thanks

EDIT: This is the specific dataset I am looking at 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE50770
Your dataset was produced on a microarray. The probe IDs in the FASTA file are similar to read IDs produced from other NGS experiments like RNA-Seq. According to the workflow provided by Ensembl the first step is to align your reads to a reference. You'll only keep the reads that match the reference completely. Once the probes are aligned you'll be able to quantify the number of reads mapping to the gene that the probe was designed to attract.

I did find a file providing the database entries associated with each probe ID (one of which is the ID you provided) for the Affymetrix Cotton Genome Array.