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DNA Microarrays: Sample Quality Control, Array Hybridization and Scanning
Published on: March 15, 2011
AFM 4.0: a toolbox for DNA microarray analysis
B J Breitkreutz1, P Jorgensen, A Breitkreutz
1Programme in Molecular Biology and Cancer, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Canada, M5G 1X5.
Abstract:
We have developed a series of programs, collectively packaged as Array File Maker 4.0 (AFM), that manipulate and manage DNA microarray data. AFM 4.0 is simple to use, applicable to any organism or microarray, and operates within the familiar confines of Microsoft Excel. Given a database of expression ratios, AFM 4.0 generates input files for clustering, helps prepare colored figures and Venn diagrams, and can uncover aneuploidy in yeast microarray data. AFM 4.0 should be especially useful to laboratories that do not have access to specialized commercial or in-house software.

