Bioconductor: an open source framework for bioinformatics and computational biology

Methods Enzymol. 2006:411:119-34. doi: 10.1016/S0076-6879(06)11008-3.

Abstract

This chapter describes the Bioconductor project and details of its open source facilities for analysis of microarray and other high-throughput biological experiments. Particular attention is paid to concepts of container and workflow design, connections of biological metadata to statistical analysis products, support for statistical quality assessment, and calibration of inference uncertainty measures when tens of thousands of simultaneous statistical tests are performed.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computational Biology / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / methods*
  • Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / statistics & numerical data
  • Software