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arrayMagic: two-colour cDNA microarray quality control and preprocessing.

Buness A, Huber W, Steiner K, Sültmann H, Poustka A

Department of Molecular Genome Analysis, German Cancer Research Center INF 580, Heidelberg, 69120, Germany. a.buness@dkfz.de

SUMMARY: arrayMagic is a software package for quality control and preprocessing of two-colour cDNA microarray data. The automated analysis pipeline comprises data import, normalization, replica merging, quality diagnostics and data export. The script-based processing combines reproducibility and flexibility at high-throughput and provides quality-assured and preprocessed microarray data to high-level follow-up analysis. AVAILABILITY: The R package arrayMagic is available with BSD license at http://www.bioconductor.org CONTACT: a.buness@dkfz.de SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The package contains documentation in the form of manual pages and a vignette with a guided tour of a typical workflow.

Published 11 February 2005 in Bioinformatics, 21(4): 554-6.
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