Simpleaffy: a BioConductor package for Affymetrix Quality Control and data analysis

CL Wilson, CJ Miller - Bioinformatics, 2005 - academic.oup.com
CL Wilson, CJ Miller
Bioinformatics, 2005academic.oup.com
Quality Control is a fundamental aspect of successful microarray data analysis. Simpleaffy is
a BioConductor package that provides access to a variety of QC metrics for assessing the
quality of RNA samples and of the intermediate stages of sample preparation and
hybridization. Simpleaffy also offers fast implementations of popular algorithms for
generating expression summaries and detection calls. Availability: Simpleaffy can be
downloaded from http://www. bioconductor. org Contact: cmiller@ picr. man. ac. uk …
Abstract
Summary: Quality Control is a fundamental aspect of successful microarray data analysis. Simpleaffy is a BioConductor package that provides access to a variety of QC metrics for assessing the quality of RNA samples and of the intermediate stages of sample preparation and hybridization. Simpleaffy also offers fast implementations of popular algorithms for generating expression summaries and detection calls.
Availability: Simpleaffy can be downloaded from http://www.bioconductor.org
Contact:  cmiller@picr.man.ac.uk
Supplementary information: Additional information can be found on the supplementary website located at http://bioinformatics.picr.man.ac.uk
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