VirtualArray: A R/bioconductor package to merge raw data from different microarray platforms

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Heider, Andreas ^a   Alt, Rüdiger ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; ORBITS; SOFTWARE PACKAGES;

CHIP GENERATIONS; INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS; MICRO-ARRAY CHIPS; MICROARRAY DATA; PUBLIC DATABASE; PUBLIC REPOSITORIES; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION; USER FRIENDLY;

BIOASSAY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84874397516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-14-75     Document Type: Article

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