ArrayPlex: distributed, interactive and programmatic access to genome sequence, annotation, ontology, and analytical toolsets

Patrick J Killion and Vishwanath R Iyer

Center for Systems and Synthetic Biology, Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Section of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station A4800, Austin, Texas 78712, USA

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Genome Biology 2008, 9:R159doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-11-r159


Published:	12 November 2008

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Genome studies

Abstract

ArrayPlex is a software package that centrally provides a large number of flexible toolsets useful for functional genomics, including microarray data storage, quality assessments, data visualization, gene annotation retrieval, statistical tests, genomic sequence retrieval and motif analysis. It uses a client-server architecture based on open source components, provides graphical, command-line, and programmatic access to all needed resources, and is extensible by virtue of a documented application programming interface. ArrayPlex is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/arrayplex/ webcite.