Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on October 12, 2006
Bioinformatics 2006 22(23):2955-2957; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl525
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NMPP: a user-customized NimbleGen microarray data processing pipeline


1 Center of Bioinformatics & Peking-Yale Joint Research Center of Plant Molecular Genetics and Agrobiotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Peking University Beijing 100871, China
2 Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University New Haven, CT 06520, USA
3 Bioinformatics Laboratory, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100101, China
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Summary: NMPP package is a bundle of user-customized tools based on established algorithms and methods to process self-designed NimbleGen microarray data. It features a command-line-based integrative processing procedure that comprises five major functional components, namely the raw microarray data parsing and integrating module, the array spatial effect smoothing and visualization module, the probe-level multi-array normalization module, the gene expression intensity summarization module and the gene expression status inference module.
Availability: http://plantgenomics.biology.yale.edu/nmpp
Contact: Xiangfeng.Wang{at}Yale.edu
Supplementary information: The supplementary materials, figures, testing dataset, software instructions and a typical workflow of using NMPP package are accessible through the above homepage.
Received on August 31, 2006; accepted on October 5, 2006