metahdep: meta-analysis of hierarchically dependent gene expression studies
Author(s) -
John R. Stevens,
Gabriel Nicholas
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp468
Subject(s) - bioconductor , covariate , r package , meta analysis , software package , expression (computer science) , computational biology , software , computer science , gene expression , microarray analysis techniques , sampling (signal processing) , gene expression profiling , dna microarray , data mining , gene , biology , genetics , medicine , programming language , machine learning , filter (signal processing) , computer vision
The metahdep package contains tools for combining the results of multiple gene expression studies. Unlike previous microarray meta-analysis packages, metahdep accounts for both sampling and hierarchical dependence among studies, as well as fundamental covariate differences between studies.
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