Monday, March 06, 2006

Mayday

Mayday: "Mayday - A microarray data analysis framework

Mayday is a workbench for visualization, analysis and storage of microarray data. It features a graphical user interface and supports the development and integration of existing and new analysis methods. Besides the infrastructural core functionality, Mayday offers a variety of plug-ins, such as various interactive viewers, a connection to the R statistical environment, a connection to SQL-based databases, and different clustering methods, including phylogenetic methods. In addition, so-called meta information objects are provided for annotation of the microarray data allowing integration of data from different sources, which is a feature that, for instance, is employed in the enhanced heatmap visualization.

Written in the Java programming language, Mayday is extremely portable and runs on all platforms supporting the Java runtime environment 1.5 (for the current 2.0 release) or 1.4.1 and later (for the 1.0-1.1 releases)."