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Mayday--a microarray data analysis workbench.

Dietzsch J, Gehlenborg N, Nieselt K

Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, Department of Information and Cognitive Sciences, University of Tübingen, Sand 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.

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 data mining methods, including WEKA-library based methods for classification and various clustering 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. Supplementary information: The software and more detailed information including screenshots and a user guide as well as test data can be found on the Mayday home page http://www.zbit.uni-tuebingen.de/pas/mayday. The core is published under the GPL (GNU Public License) and the associated plug-ins under the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License).

Published 3 April 2006 in Bioinformatics, 22(8): 1010-2.
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