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    Integromics LIMMA Guide

    Category Genomics>Gene Expression Analysis/Profiling/Tools

    Abstract  Integromics LIMMA Guide is an interactive analytical tool for
    quality control and statistical analysis of microarray data. The LIMMA
    Guide is a plugin integrated in Spotfire DecisionSite (see G6G Product
    Number 20061) that implements a guided workflow to perform efficient
    and reliable analysis of two-channel microarray data. The LIMMA (see
    Note 1) Guide is an integration of a wide range of advanced statistical
    libraries of Bioconductor. Therefore, the end user benefits from the
    combination of the best available tools for statistical analysis (R-
    Bioconductor) and visual data mining (Spotfire).

    After automatically importing the raw intensity data, researchers can
    perform advanced Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA) and
    receive reliable lists of annotated differentially expressed genes. This
    tool is fully customizable to specific needs such as, the integration of
    existing R scripts.

    Additional key features/capabilities include:

    1) Support for multiple scanner formats -- Direct importing from the
    most popular scanning devices via scanner files from Agilent, GenePix,
    Scanalize, etc.

    2) Validate your results with state-of-the-art statistics -- Quality control of
    replicates, filtering methods, study of background signal values,
    normalization, differential expression analysis supported by
    Bioconductor’s algorithms.

    3) Advanced interactive visualization in Spotfire DecisionSite -- Users
    can benefit from unique capabilities by browsing and inspecting gene
    expression data in Spotfire as well as other outstanding features such
    as, clustering methods, report generation and gene ontology (GO)
    integration.

    4) Differential expression analysis -- P-value and False Discovery Rate
    (FDR) correction methods supported by Bioconductor.

    5) Quality control of replicates -- via Correlation Plot, Coefficient of
    Variation (CV) versus Intensity Plot, Signal-to-Signal Correlation Plot
    and MA Plot.

    6) Offers filtering methods -- such as, "Low quality data filtering" and
    Flags.

    7) Clustering algorithms offered -- Self Organizing Map (SOM), K-
    means, Hierarchical Clustering, and Principal Component Analysis
    (PCA).

    8) Provides automatic Gene Ontology (GO) and file-based annotation.

    9) Offers optional integration with the KEGG database and Ingenuity
    Pathways (see G6G Product Number 20017).

    Software requirements --

    1) Spotfire DecisionSite and Functional Genomics package.
    2) The R environment.
    3) Bioconductor libraries LIMMA, Biobase and SAM (see G6G Product
    Number 20066).

    Note 1:  Linear Models for Microarray Data (LIMMA) -- A software
    package for the analysis of gene expression microarray data, especially
    the use of linear models for analyzing designed experiments and the
    assessment of differential expression. The package includes pre-
    processing capabilities for two-color spotted arrays. The differential
    expression methods apply to all array platforms and treat Affymetrix,
    single channel and two channel experiments in a unified way.

    Note 2:  For further functional analysis of large amounts of differentially
    expressed genes that output from the LIMMA Guide, you can directly
    integrate this data into the advanced analysis tool ArrayUnlock (see
    G6G Product Number 20102).

    System Requirements  

    Contact manufacturer

    Manufacturer   Home office; see web site for international locations.

    Integromics, S.L.
    Centro Nacional de Biotecnología - CNB
    C/ Darwin 3
    28049 Cantoblanco Madrid, Spain
    Phone: (+34) 91 585 5305
    Fax: (+34) 91 585 5315
    e-mail:  technical.support@integromics.com

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