Robert C. Gentleman, PhD
Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics,
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
I will discuss an open source system for the analysis of geneomic data. The system is centered around R (www.r-project.org) and provides direct connections to specialty image storage libraries, hierarchical (or object-oriented) databases for the storage of the relevant data. It combines, in a coherent method for organizing and accessing quantitative data, phenotypic data and experimental data. The system provides access to many statistical routines for both computation and visualization. A particular package for the univariate analysis of gene expression data (gene filtering and discrimination) will be discussed in detail.