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ENAR 2003

Statistical Methods and Software for the Analysis of DNA Microarray Experiments

Sandrine Dudoit
Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley

Rafael Irizarry
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Short Course SC1
ENAR Spring Meeting
Tampa, FL
March 30, 2003

Lecture notes

Part A: Introduction to the biology and technology of DNA microarrays; Overview of the Bioconductor Project; Annotation; Visualization.

Part B: Pre-processing: spotted and Affymetrix arrays; Differential gene expression.

Software demo: download the archive, extract the files and run the enardemo.R source.

Expanded versions of the lectures notes and demo are available from courses given previously at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

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