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DetectiV: visualization, normalization and significance testing for pathogen-detection microarray data.

Watson M, Dukes J, Abu-Median AB, King DP, Britton P

Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, Berks RG20 7NN, UK. michael.watson@bbsrc.ac.uk.

ABSTRACT: DNA microarrays offer the possibility of testing for the presence of thousands of micro-organisms in a single experiment. However, there is a lack of reliable bioinformatics tools for the analysis of such data. We have developed DetectiV, a package for the statistical software R. DetectiV offers powerful yet simple visualization, normalization and significance testing tools. We show that DetectiV performs better than previously published software on a large, publicly available dataset.

Published 5 October 2007 in Genome Biol, 8(9): R190.
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