Microarray version 0.45
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Microarray is a suite of object oriented Perl Modules for the handling and analysis of microarray experiment data. These include modules for handling common formats of microarray files, modules for the programmatic abstraction of a microarray experiment, and for the output of a variety of images describing microarray experiment data. 

This distribution is not yet fully tested; there are 8 test scripts that cover 14 of the 18 modules included in this distribution, although only 10 of those modules are covered in detail. However, the data files required for execution of the majority of the tests are not included in this distribution because of their size, but instead they are available for download from our Laboratory's web site at the following address;

http://www.instituteforwomenshealth.ucl.ac.uk/AcademicResearch/Cancer/trl/pipeline/microarray_test_files.zip

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Image::ExifTool
  GD
  FileHandle
  File::Slurp
  File::Basename
  Module::List

The test scripts accompanying the modules require the following modules and libraries:

  Test::More
  Test::Group
  Test::Differences
  Test::Deep
  Test::Image::GD

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2008 by Christopher Jones, UCL EGA Institute for Women's Health, University College London

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself