arrayMagic: two-colour cDNA microarray quality control and preprocessing

Bioinformatics. 2005 Feb 15;21(4):554-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bti052. Epub 2004 Sep 28.

Abstract

arrayMagic is a software package for quality control and preprocessing of two-colour cDNA microarray data. The automated analysis pipeline comprises data import, normalization, replica merging, quality diagnostics and data export. The script-based processing combines reproducibility and flexibility at high-throughput and provides quality-assured and preprocessed microarray data to high-level follow-up analysis.

Availability: The R package arrayMagic is available with BSD license at http://www.bioconductor.org

Contact: a.buness@dkfz.de

Supplementary information: The package contains documentation in the form of manual pages and a vignette with a guided tour of a typical workflow.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Database Management Systems*
  • Gene Expression Profiling / methods*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
  • Quality Control
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface*