title: Comparative gene marker selection suite.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  An important step in analyzing expression profiles from microarray data is to identify genes that can discriminate between distinct classes of samples. Many statistical approaches for assigning significance values to genes have been developed. The Comparative Marker Selection suite consists of three modules that allow users to apply and compare different methods of computing significance for each marker gene, a viewer to assess the results, and a tool to create derivative datasets and marker lists based on user-defined significance criteria.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The Comparative Marker Selection application suite is freely available as a GenePattern module. The GenePattern analysis environment is freely available at http://www.broad.mit.edu/genepattern.
authors.affiliation: Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. jgould@broad.mit.edu
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gould
authors.forename: Gad
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Getz
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monti
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Reich
authors.forename: Jill P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mesirov
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods*; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D008957:Models, Genetic; D015233:Models, Statistical; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers