Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on July 30, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(19):2619-2620; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp468
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metahdep: meta-analysis of hierarchically dependent gene expression studies
1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-3900 and 2Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53792-4675, USA
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Summary: The metahdep package contains tools for combining the results of multiple gene expression studies. Unlike previous microarray meta-analysis packages, metahdep accounts for both sampling and hierarchical dependence among studies, as well as fundamental covariate differences between studies.
Availability: http://bioconductor.org/packages/release/Software.html
Contact: john.r.stevens{at}usu.edu
Received on July 2, 2009; revised on July 2, 2009; accepted on July 24, 2009