Performing statistical analyses on quantitative data in Taverna workflows: An example using R and maxdBrowse to identify differentially-expressed genes from microarray data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Li, Peter ^a   Castrillo, Juan I ^b   Velarde, Giles ^a   Wassink, Ingo ^c   Soiland Reyes, Stian ^a   Owen, Stuart ^a   Withers, David ^a   Oinn, Tom ^d   Pocock, Matthew R ^e   Goble, Carole A ^a   Oliver, Stephen G ^b   Kell, Douglas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; GENE EXPRESSION DATA; MICRO-ARRAY DATABASE; QUANTITATIVE DATA; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; WORK-FLOW SYSTEMS; WORKFLOW EXECUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; GENE EXPRESSION; QUERY PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOOLS; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; STATISTICS;

COCKSFOOT STREAK VIRUS;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 51249104057     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-334     Document Type: Article

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