Tuesday, March 07, 2006

WebArray - Online Microarray Data Analysis Platform

WebArray - Online Microarray Data Analysis Platform

WebArray is a web platform for analysis of microarray data. The computations are powered by R language and Bioconductor. Benefited from Bioconductor, WebArray is able to deal with intensity data files of many different types, like Affymetrix, Agilent, Genepix, QuantArray, etc. WebArray offers many conventional functions for microarray data analysis:

  • Background Substration Including several methods.
  • Normalization For within-array normalization, methods cover print-tip loess, global loess, median, robust spline; for between-array normalization, methods include Aquantile, Gquantile, PCA, Quantile, Rquantile, Scale and vsn.
  • Analysis limma-based linear model statistical analysis (including FDR calculation with SPLOSH).
  • Genome Mapping Available for different genome types.