[BiO BB] gene expression software for mere biologists?

[Alexander Kel]

Hi Harry,

you may try the software called ExPlain
http://www.biobase.de/index.php?id=286

There is a free trial at:
http://www.biobase.de/index.php?id=456

My team from Russia and Germany
have developed it. Perhaps, you
will like it.

If you have any question dont hesitate to drop
me a line.

All the best,

Alexander Kel

Alexander Kel, PhD
SVP R&D
BIOBASE GmbH,
Halchtersche Strasse 33
D-38304 Wolfenbuettel
Phone: +49 (0) 5331-8584-41
Fax: +49 (0) 5331-8584-70
www.biobase.de
ake at biobase.de


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:39 PM, 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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