| 1 | = se.lu.thep.affymetrix for BASE = |
| 2 | |
| 3 | This package contains two plug-ins for BASE: RMAExpress and Plier. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | RMAExpress and Plier are two similar plug-ins needed to make use of |
| 6 | Affymetrix data in BASE. Affymetrix data can be imported into BASE as |
| 7 | files, but if one wants to perform clustering and other analysis |
| 8 | available in BASE, the data in these files have to be extracted and |
| 9 | imported into BASE. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | These plug-ins do not implement the RMA method and Plier method, |
| 12 | but rather relies on third-party binary packages. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | The RMAExpress plug-in relies on RMAExpressConsole available in the |
| 15 | RMAExpress package available at http://rmaexpress.bmbolstad.com/. The |
| 16 | RMA algorithm is published in scientific journals, for more |
| 17 | information please refer to the RMAExpress web site. In short RMA is |
| 18 | the Robust Multichip Average. It consists of three steps: a background |
| 19 | adjustment, quantile normalization, and finally a summarization. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | The Plier plug-in relies on `apt-probeset-summarize` included in |
| 22 | Affymetrix Power Tools (APT) available at |
| 23 | http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/powertools/index.affx. |
| 24 | `apt-probeset-summarize` provides several methods (see Affymetrix home |
| 25 | page). Here we use the method given with option flag `--option |
| 26 | plier-mm`. For more information regarding the Plier algorithm please |
| 27 | refer to the Affymetrix home page. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | |
| 30 | = Documentation = |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [source:trunk/se/lu/thep/affymetrix/INSTALL INSTALL] describes how to install the plug-in (either from a (semi)pre-compiled package or the subversion repository). |
| 33 | |
| 34 | [source:trunk/se/lu/thep/affymetrix/README README] contains general information about the plug-in and hints on how to use it. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | Information about the underlying algorithms can be found at http://rmaexpress.bmbolstad.com/ and [http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/powertools/index.affx affymetrix homepage], respectively. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | |
| 39 | = License = |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public License version 2]. |
| 42 | |
| 43 | = Download se.lu.thep.affymetrix for BASE = |
| 44 | |
| 45 | Browse the source source:trunk/se/lu/thep/affymetrix or download latest stable release (soon to come). Works with BASE 2.0 and later. |