title: MADGene: retrieval and processing of gene identifier lists for the analysis of heterogeneous microarray datasets.
abstract: MADGene is a software environment comprising a web-based database and a java application. This platform aims at unifying gene identifiers (ids) and performing gene set analysis. MADGene allows the user to perform inter-conversion of clone and gene ids over a large range of nomenclatures relative to 17 species. We propose a set of 23 functions to facilitate the analysis of gene sets and we give two microarray applications to show how MADGene can be used to conduct meta-analyses.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The MADGene resources are freely available online from http://www.madtools.org, a website dedicated to the analysis and annotation of DNA microarray data.
authors.affiliation: INSERM U915, IRT-UN, University of Nantes, France.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: Audrey
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bihouée
authors.forename: Raluca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Teusan
authors.forename: Emeric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dubois
authors.forename: Frédérique
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Savagner
authors.forename: Marja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steenman
authors.forename: Rémi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Houlgatte
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ramstein
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D020407:Internet; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface