[BiO BB] gene expression software for mere biologists?

Nicoline aledni at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 16:11:06 EST 2008


Hi,
Try BRB-ARRAY, it is an very extensive Excell plug in with  option to
include R/Bioconductor packages.
http://linus.nci.nih.gov/BRB-ArrayTools.html


Nicoline van Loenen, PhD candidate
Lincoln University
C-fACS Centre for Advanced Computing
Agricultural & Life Sciences Division
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/story28668.html




On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Harry Mangalam <harry.mangalam at uci.edu>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> This may be a difficult query for this group to answer as the
> readership is canted heavily in the geek direction, but what gene
> expression software are you and your users relying on for gene
> expression and pathway analysis?
>
> I tilt heavily towards R/Bioconductor and other free software, so I'm
> aware of the advantages of it, but we have non-commandline tool
> researchers who are in need of tools they can use to examine the
> results of gene expression studies.
>
> This is something of a no-win - those tools that are very easy to use
> tend to hide the very complexity that the user has to address, and so
> the 'ease of use' / 'ease of thought' tends to weaken an already iffy
> analysis.
>
> That said, are there tools (commercial or free) that provide fairly
> good tradeoffs between power and ease of use for a non-geek biologist
> user.  ie runs on Mac & Windows and is mostly GUI? (If you have
> experience in introducing such users to R, I'd also be interested in
> your experiences).
>
> Due to some aggressive pushing from the local SAS consulting group, we
> are in the startup phase of a campus-wide, 1 year trial of
> JMP/Genomics.  JMP is a fairly cheap, nicely designed, multiplatform
> GUI stats package from SAS.  The Genomics part tho is an expensive
> add-on that runs only on Windows and depends on an optional, even
> more expensive Pathways package from InGenuity.  The local research
> community does not have a problem paying for such software if it
> truly does work easily and well.  If you have used it and have an
> opinion or evaluation, I'd love to hear from you via email or phone.
>
> Harry
>
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Nicoline
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