Microarray Data Analysis Using S-PLUS and Insightful ArrayAnalyzer

Presented: December 12, 2002 2:00 PM ET

Speaker: Michael O'Connell, Insightful Corporation

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Join Dr. Michael O’Connell to learn how Insightful’s ArrayAnalyzer Web-based solution can help you analyze microarray data to identify and validate targets more quickly.

• Receive a guided analysis of powerful analytics, mapped workflow and normalization techniques including Quantile, Loess and Median Absolute Deviation.
  
• Learn how our solution can be used for differential expression analysis including local pooled error (LPE) estimation, permutation tests, and other analyses designed to control the false discovery rate or family-wise error rate.
  
• Report and communicate your discoveries easily using interactive visualization with S-PLUS Graphlets and graphical and tabular summaries.
  
• Annotate genes easily using standard on-line annotation databases including NCBI, Unigene, LocusLink and Pubmed.
  
• Learn how to customize your analysis using the object-oriented S language created specifically for data visualization and exploration, statistical modeling and programming with data.

Michael O'Connell is Director of Biopharmaceutical Solutions at Insightful Corporation and Adjunct Professor North Carolina State University Department of Statistics. Dr. O'Connell’s background and graduate work was in applied statistics and he has published more than 30 papers on graphics, statistics, data mining and biopharmaceutics. He has also written several statistical software packages and managed more than 50 successful custom software application development efforts. Dr. O'Connell holds a Bachelors degree in Science from the University of Sydney, a Masters degree in Statistics from the University of New South Wales and a Ph.D in Statistics from North Carolina State University.