Summary: MADE4, microarray ade4, is a software package that facilitates multivariate analysis of microarray gene expression data. MADE4 accepts a wide variety of gene expression data formats. MADE4 takes advantage of the extensive multivariate statistical and graphical functions in the R package ade4, extending these for application to microarray data. In addition MADE4 provides new graphical and visualisation tools that aid in interpretation of multivariate analysis of microarray data. Availability: The R package MADE4 is available from Bioconductor www.bioconductor.org and bioinf.ucd.ie/software/ Supplementary information: MADE4 is well documented. There are tutorials, in the form of vignettes, which describe typical analyses. In addition the MADE4 manual provides descriptions and examples for each function.
Aedín C. Culhane, Jean Thioulouse, Guy Perr