Mayday – A Microarray Data Analysis Workbench

Abstract

Mayday is a workbench for visualization, analysis and storage of microarray data. It features a graphical user interface and supports the development and integration of existing and new analysis methods. Besides the infrastructural core functionality, Mayday offers a variety of plug-ins, such as various interactive viewers, a connection to the R statistical environment, a connection to SQL-based databases and different data mining methods, including WEKA-library based methods for classification and various clustering methods. In addition, so-called meta information objects are provided for annotation of the microarray data allowing integration of data from different sources, which is a feature that, for instance, is employed in the enhanced heatmap visualization.

Citation

J Dietzsch, N Gehlenborg, K Nieselt. “Mayday – A Microarray Data Analysis Workbench”, Bioinformatics 22(8):1010-1012 (2006). doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl070