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dChip Software: Analysis and visualization of

gene expression and SNP microarrays

 

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dChip course from Bioinformatics.org (5/19-23)

 

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Developed by Cheng Li Lab and Wing Wong Lab.

Supported by National Institutes of Health, Belfer Foundation, Friends of DFCI and Claudia Adams Barr Program.

 

Latest updates

 

3/24/08: You can use "Open group/Get External data" to update a sample info file while in a session, instead of reading all data again. Check "Update" after "Sample info" in this dialog. (suggested by Charles Mullighan)

 

2/17/08: At “Analysis/Chromosome/Options”, specify a “Chromosome result file” and select “Write” or “Read” to store inferred LOH or copy numbers in a binary data file during an initial session, and read these data back in later sessions.

 

2/12/08: SNP 6.0 and SNP 5.0 genome info files now include one for the CNV probes. The two files may be combined in a text editor to view SNP and CNV probes together. The AFFY-SNP- probe sets will also be included in the CDF.BIN file if you check “ignore existing dcp and cdf.bin file” to re-extract data.

 

2/4/08: “Chromosome/Linkage analysis”: The “vector sum is 0” error is handled when “Apply inheritance vector reduction” is checked, so that sporadic LOD score peaks are eliminated and result in smoother LOD curve. “Options/Score/Use one of every X markers” can be set to have a quicker analysis using a subset of markers. If “out of memory” error occurs, reducing “Options/Chromosome/HMM length” will help.

 

12/14/07: (1) Start to add toolbar and menu icons. (2) R view is changed to an “R codes” dialog and the Analysis view is used for R output.

 

12/7/07: “Tools/Gene list by keywords” can accept a gene symbol file (each line for a gene) and convert gene symbols to probe set names.

 

11/29/07: UPD can be displayed in copy number summary plot.

 

11/22/07: Check “Chromosome/Show LOH in Copy” to show uniparental disomy (UPD) in black in inferred copy or log2 view.

 

11/19/07: Process human gene ST array.

 

11/18/07: Sample correlation matrix is drawn in the Plots view. When samples are clustered, the correlation matrix has the same order.

 

10/10/07: (1) While in the chromosome view, use "Chromosome/Sort Samples" to sort samples according to the current SNP's data values under view.

(2) Make SNP genome information files using a Python program.

 

10/7/07: Set "Options/Chromosome/Fixed HMM SD" to be > 0 to use this value as the standard deviation (SD) of copy number HMM's emission distribution, instead of computing SDs SNP-wise from normal samples. Larger values will lead to more smooth HMM-inferred copy numbers.

 

10/3/07: Scale inferred copy number by "mode copy number" to recover absolute copy numbers.

 

9/15/07: Export SNP copy number or LOH data in UCSC Wiggle format.

 

8/25/07: "Chromosome/Export SNP data" can export chromosome regions for both inferred copy and LOH data, and for both single samples and summary score (use key S to toggle). To compute summary score for copy number data, set "Options/Threshold" to be not equal to 2.

 

8/12/07: Chromosome region data can be exported to find genes or cytobands altered in high percentage of samples.

 

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