title: imDEV: a graphical user interface to R multivariate analysis tools in Microsoft Excel.
abstract: Interactive modules for Data Exploration and Visualization (imDEV) is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet embedded application providing an integrated environment for the analysis of omics data through a user-friendly interface. Individual modules enables interactive and dynamic analyses of large data by interfacing R's multivariate statistics and highly customizable visualizations with the spreadsheet environment, aiding robust inferences and generating information-rich data visualizations. This tool provides access to multiple comparisons with false discovery correction, hierarchical clustering, principal and independent component analyses, partial least squares regression and discriminant analysis, through an intuitive interface for creating high-quality two- and a three-dimensional visualizations including scatter plot matrices, distribution plots, dendrograms, heat maps, biplots, trellis biplots and correlation networks.
  
  
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  Freely available for download at http://sourceforge.net/projects/imdev/. Implemented in R and VBA and supported by Microsoft Excel (2003, 2007 and 2010).
authors: Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
authors: Dmitry
authors: D
authors: Grapov
authors: John W
authors: JW
authors: Newman
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D003196:Computer Graphics; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D006801:Humans; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface