title: Mayday--a microarray data analysis workbench.
abstract: Mayday is a workbench for visualization, analysis and storage of microarray data. It features a graphical user interface and supports the development and integration of existing and new analysis methods. Besides the infrastructural core functionality, Mayday offers a variety of plug-ins, such as various interactive viewers, a connection to the R statistical environment, a connection to SQL-based databases and different data mining methods, including WEKA-library based methods for classification and various clustering methods. In addition, so-called meta information objects are provided for annotation of the microarray data allowing integration of data from different sources, which is a feature that, for instance, is employed in the enhanced heatmap visualization.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The software and more detailed information including screenshots and a user guide as well as test data can be found on the Mayday home page http://www.zbit.uni-tuebingen.de/pas/mayday. The core is published under the GPL (GNU Public License) and the associated plug-ins under the LGPL (Lesser GNU Public License).
authors.affiliation: Center for Bioinformatics Tübingen, Department of Information and Cognitive Sciences, University of Tübingen, Sand 14, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Janko
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dietzsch
authors.forename: Nils
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Gehlenborg
authors.forename: Kay
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nieselt
mesh_terms: D003196:Computer Graphics; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface