Tools for processing Affymetrix data

ABSOLUTE & HAPSEG

Authors: Scott Carter et al. (Broad Institute)
What: "When DNA is extracted from an admixed population of cancer and normal cells, the information on absolute copy number per cancer cell is lost in the mixing. The purpose of ABSOLUTE is to re-extract these data from the mixed DNA population. This process begins by generation of segmented copy number data, which is input to the ABSOLUTE algorithm together with pre-computed models of recurrent cancer karyotypes and, optionally, allelic fraction values for somatic point mutations. The output of ABSOLUTE then provides re-extracted information on the absolute cellular copy number of local DNA segments and, for point mutations, the number of mutated alleles."
Chip types: Affymetrix Mapping250K_Sty and GenomeWideSNP_6.
Operating system: R (access requires formal request)
URL: http://www.broadinstitute.org/cancer/cga/ABSOLUTE

Affymetrix APT (Affymetrix Power Tools) software package

Authors: Affymetrix
What: A set of cross-Operating system command line programs that implement algorithms for analyzing and working with Affymetrix GeneChip arrays.
Chip types: Multiple chip types, not only SNP arrays.
Operating system: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Sun OS, ...
URL1: https://www.affymetrix.com/support/technical/product_updates/brlmm_algorithm.affx
URL2: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/powertools/changelog/
See also: Affymetrix
BRLMM Analysis Tool (BAT) 2.0, which is a GUI for Windows.

Affymetrix Chromosome Analysis Suite (ChAS)

Authors: Affymetrix
What: "Our entirely new Affymetrix Chromosome Analysis Suite (ChAS) software, designed specifically for cytogenetic researchers, gives you the exact functions you need within an easy-to-use graphical interface. [...]"
Chip types: SNP and CN arrays.
Operating system: Windows (only?)
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/estore/browse/level_seven_software_products_only.jsp?categoryIdClicked=&productId=131408

Affymetrix CNAT v4.0

What: Copy-number analysis
Chip types: 10K, 100K, 500K.
Operating system: Windows, Unix
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/devnettools.affx ("copy number pipeline", command line)
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/products/software/specific/cnat.affx (Windows GUI)
References: Copy Number and Loss of Heterozygosity Estimation Algorithms for the GeneChip Human Mapping Array Sets, Whitepaper, Affymetrix, 2006.
See also: H. Bengtsson, HB's Guide to CNAT v4.0, 2007.

Affymetrix GTC (Affymetrix Genotyping Console Software)

Authors: Affymetrix
What: Genotyping analysis software package designed to streamline quality control, genotyping analysis, and copy-number analysis & LOH. No CN-analysis for GWS5. At least CN/LOH is hardwired to the default CDFs, that is, the "full" CDFs wont do/make any difference (private communication with Affymetrix, 2007-12-18).
Chip types: Mapping50K{Hind|Xba}240, Mapping250K{Nsp|Sty}, GenomeWideSNP_5, GenomeWideSNP_6.
Operating system: Windows
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/products_services/software/specific/genotyping_console_software.affx

Affymetrix IGB (Integrated Genome Browser)

Authors: Affymetrix
What: An open-source click'n'run Java genome browser.
Operating system: Java
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/download_igb.affx
URL: http://genoviz.sourceforge.net/

ArrayInitiative

What: "A tool that simplifies creating custom Affymetrix CDFs"
Operating system: Any (Python)
URL: http://wellerlab.uncc.edu/ArrayInitiative/

ASCAT (Allele-Specific Copy number Analysis of Tumors) & ASPCF

Authors: P. van Loo, S. Nordgard et al.
What: "Software for segmentation and allele-specific copy number estimation for SNP array data."
Chip types: SNP & CN microarrays.
Operating system: MATLAB and R. The bivariate segmentation method ASPCF is implemented in MATLAB and the ASCN estimation method ASCAT in R.
URL: http://heim.ifi.uio.no/bioinf/Projects/ASCAT/

AffyProbeMiner

Authors: Multiple - LMP, NCI, NIH, Georgetown University.
What: Generates Custom CDFs. A service to "1) generate a collection of complete coding sequences composed of a) RefSeq records with accessions starting with "NM_" (e.g. NM_012345), b) validated complete coding sequences in GenBank, and 2) regroup probes in Affymetrix chips into probe sets, where the probes in a probe set map to a consistent set of complete coding sequences [at the] gene-level [and/or] the transcript-level".
Chip types: Several, but not all.
Operating system: Cross operating system (online)
URL: http://gauss.dbb.georgetown.edu/liblab/affyprobeminer/

ArrayInitiative

Authors: C. Overall et al., University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
What: "A Generic Tool for Creating Custom Affymetrix CDFs".
Operating system: Python.
URL: http://wellerlab.uncc.edu/ArrayInitiative/

Bioconductor packages

Description: "Available Bioconductor Software for Processing Oligonucleotide Arrays"
URL: https://bioconductor.org//docs/workflows/oligoarrays/

Birdsuite

Description: "The Birdsuite is a fully open-source set of tools to detect and report SNP genotypes, common Copy-Number Variants (CNVs), and rare/de novo CNVs in samples processed with the Affymetrix Operating system. While most of the components of the suite can be run individually (for instance, to simply do SNP genotyping), the Birdsuite is especially intended for integrated analysis of SNPs and CNVs."
Authors: Joshua Korn et al. (Broad Institute, MIT, ...)
Chip types: GenomeWideSNP_5 and GenomeWideSNP_6.
Operating system: Linux
URL: http://www.broad.mit.edu/mpg/birdsuite/

CGB (The Cancer Genome Browser)

Description: "The Cancer Genome Browser is a tool that allows the visualization and analysis of high throughput data generated by large initiatives, such as the The Cancer Genome Atlas project."
Authors:
Operating system: cross platform (MATLAB)
URL: http://code.google.com/p/cancergenome/
References:

CisGenome

Description: "An integrated tool for tiling array, ChIP-seq, genome and cis-regulatory element analysis."
Authors:
Operating system: Windows, OS X and Linux.
URL: http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/~hji/cisgenome/

CMDS (Correlation Matrix Diagonal Segmentation)

Authors: Zhang et al.
What: A Fast Genome-wide Approach for Identifying Recurrent DNA Copy Number Alterations across Cancer Patients.
Operating system: R (scripts; mail authors)
URL: https://dsgweb.wustl.edu/qunyuan/software/cmds/
References: Zhang, Q.; Ding, L.; Larson, D. E.; Koboldt, D. C.; McLellan, M. D.; Chen, K.; Shi, X.; Kraja, A.; Mardis, E. R.; Wilson, R. K.; Boreki, I. B. & Province, M. A. CMDS: a population-based method for identifying recurrent DNA copy number aberrations in cancer from high-resolution data. Bioinformatics, 2009.
Poster: Qunyuan Zhang, Li Ding, Aldi Kraja, Ingrid Boreki, Michael A. Province, Correlation Matrix Diagonal Segmentation (CMDS) - A Fast Genome-wide Approach for Identifying Recurrent DNA Copy Number Alterations across Cancer Patients, IGES (International Genetic Epidemiology Society), Sept. 2008, St. Louis, US. [ppt]

CNAG

Authors: Seishi Ogawa Group, University of Tokyo
What: Copy-number analysis
Chip types: 100K, 500K.
Operating system: Windows
URL: http://www.genome.umin.jp/
References: CancerRes; 65(14), 6071-79 (2005).
See also: H. Bengtsson, HB's Guide to CNAG v2, 2007.

dChip (dChipSNP)

Authors: Cheng Li Group, DFCI and HSPH
What: Expression analysis, copy-number analysis, ...
Chip types: Several. For SNP & CN analysis: 10K, 100K, 500K, 5.0, 6.0.
Operating system: Windows
URL: http://www.dchip.org/
References: (1) C. Li and W. Wong Model-based analysis of oligonucleotide arrays: Expression index computation and outlier detection, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci, 2001, Vol. 98, 31-36. (2) M. Lin et al. dChipSNP: significance curve and clustering of SNP-array-based loss-of-heterozygosity data, Bioinformatics, 2004, 20, 1233-40. (3) C. Li et al., Major copy proportion analysis of tumor samples using SNP arrays. BMC Bioinformatics, 2008, 9:204.
See also: H. Bengtsson, HB's Guide to dChip, 2005-2007.
Note: The dChipSNP (not dChip) executable is obsolete, cf. dChip thread 'How to cite dChip etc?', Feb 16, 2010.

EXALT (EXpression signature AnaLysis Tool)

Description: "...a resource for examining gene expression signatures in public domains. A gene expression signature in a microarray data set is defined by EXALT as a list of significant genes with their group comparison codes and corresponding statistical scores. In essence, a signature represents a statistically validated fingerprint associated with a biological observation made from a gene expression experiment. EXALT has extracted signatures of differential genes within each experiment and built a large formatted collection of microarray results from NCBI GEO and published cancer studies. Thus, investigators can focus on discovery by searching, browsing, and querying on pre-computed gene expression signatures."
References: J. Wu et al. Web-based interrogation of gene expression signatures using EXALT. BMC Bioinformatics, 2009
URL: http://seq.mc.vanderbilt.edu/exalt/

Expander

Authors: Ron Shamir's Computational Genomics Laboratory, School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University
Operating system: Java
What: "EXPANDER (EXpression Analyzer and DisplayER) is a java-based tool for analysis of gene expression data. It is capable of (1) clustering (2) visualizing (3) biclustering and (4) performing downstream analysis of clusters and biclusters such as functional enrichment and promoter analysis. In particular, it can analyze groups of genes for enrichment of transcription factor binding sites in their promoters."
URL: http://acgt.cs.tau.ac.il/expander/

FARMS

Description: "Factor Analysis for Robust Microarray Summarization (FARMS) is a model-based technique for summarizing high-density oligonucleotide array data at probe level for Affymetrix GeneChips."
Chip types: ?
Platform: R (Windows, Linux, ...?)
URL: http://www.bioinf.jku.at/software/farms/farms.html
References: Sepp Hochreiter, Djork-Arne Clevert & Klaus Obermayer, A new summarization method for affymetrix probe level data, Bioinformatics 2006 22(8):943-949; [DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl033].

GADA (Genome Alteration Detection Analysis)

Authors: Pique-Regi et al.
What: "GADA is a fast and accurate method for detecting copy number alterations (CNA) from array data. [...]"
Chip types: Generic segmentation method applicable to all raw CNs.
Operating system: ?
URL: https://groups.google.com//group/gadaproject
References: (1) Pique-Regi R and Gonzalez JR: "R-Gada: a package for fast and parallel detection of copy number on multiple samples and visualization", Bioinformatics , Submitted Dec 2008, (2) Pique-Regi R, Monso-Varona J,Ortega A, Seeger RC, Triche TJ, Asgharzadeh S: "Sparse representation and Bayesian detection of the genome copy number alterations from microarray data", Bioinformatics , Feb 2008 [PMID: 18203770]

GEMCA

Authors: The Copy Number Variation Project, University of Tokyo
What: Detects copy number variants (CNVs).
Chip types: 500K
Operating system: Windows
URL: www.genome.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/CNV/gemca_details.html
References: Komura et al., Genome-wide detection of human copy number variations using high density DNA oligonucleotide arrays, Genome Research 16, 1575-1584 (2006)

genoCN (genoCNA/genoCNV)

Authors: Sun et al.
What: Simultaneously dissect copy number states and genotypes using the data from high density SNP arrays.
Chip types: 500K
Operating system: R
URL: http://www.bios.unc.edu/~wsun/software.htm
References: ??Sun et al., Integrated study of copy number states and genotype calls using high-density SNP arrays. Nucleic Acids Res, 2009, 37, 5365-5377.

GISTIC (Genomic Identification of Significant Targets in Cancer)

Authors: Beroukhim et al.
What: Finding common CN regions in tumors.Chip types: 100K. Possibly others as well.
Operating system: Linux 64-bit (binary only).
URL: http://www.broad.mit.edu/cancer/pub/GISTIC/
Manuals: GISTIC for GenePattern
References: Beroukhim et al. 2007, Assessing the significance of chromosomal aberrations in cancer: Methodology and application to glioma, PNAS, December 2007.

GTS (Genome Topography Scan)

Authors: Cameron Brennan
What:
Operating system: R (package also contains iCNA)
URL: http://cbio.mskcc.org/brennan/
Reference: Wiedemeyer R, Brennan C, Heffernan TP, Xiao Y, Mahoney J, et al. Feedback circuit among INK4 tumor suppressors constrains human glioblastoma development. Cancer Cell, 2008, 13: 355-364.

iCNA (intragenic CNA)

Authors: Cameron Brennan
What: Identifying statistically significant intragenic CNA boundaries.
Operating system: R (in package GTS; see above)
URL: http://cbio.mskcc.org/brennan/
Reference:

IdeogramBrowser

Author: Muller A et al.
What: "A Java tool for visualization of genomic aberrations using Affymetrix SNP arrays."
Chip types: 10K, 100K, 500K, GWS5(?), GWS6(?), ...
Operating system: Java (cross OS)
URL: http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/ni/staff/HKestler/ideo/
References: Muller A et al., Visualization of genomic aberrations using Affymetrix SNP arrays, Bioinformatics, 2007, 15;23(4):496-7 [PMID: 17138589]

IGV (Integrative Genomics Viewer)

Authors: ... (Broad Institute)
What: "The Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) is a high-performance visualization tool for interactive exploration of large, integrated datasets.". Can be linked to the TCGA data servers.
Operating system: Java (cross OS)
URL: http://www.broad.mit.edu/igv/
Documentation: http://www.broad.mit.edu/igv/doc/faq.html, http://www.broad.mit.edu/igv/doc/fileformats.html
References: ?

MADS+

Authors: Shen et al.
What: "Discovery of differential splicing events from Affymetrix exon junction array data."
Requirements: R, RPy2, Python
References: Shen et al., MADS+: discovery of differential splicing events from Affymetrix exon junction array data, Bioinformatics, 2009.
URL: http://www.medicine.uiowa.edu/Labs/Xing/MADSplus/

MAT (Model-based Analysis of Tiling arrays)

Authors: Johnson et al.
What: "We propose a novel analysis algorithm MAT to reliably detect regions enriched by transcription factor Chromatin ImmunoPrecipitation (ChIP) on Affymetrix tiling arrays (chip)."
Operating system: Linux, source code
URL: http://liulab.dfci.harvard.edu/MAT/
References: (i) Johnson WE, Li W, Meyer CA, Gottardo R, Carroll JS, Brown M and Liu XS: Model-based analysis of tiling-arrays for ChIP-chip. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103 (2006) 12457-12462. (ii) Li W, Carroll JS, Brown M and Liu XS: xMAN: extreme MApping of OligoNucleotides. Accepted, BIOCOMP'07, BMC Genomics.

Microarray Blob Remover (MBR)

Authors: S. Liu et al.
What: "We introduce a new software tool, the Microarray Blob Remover (MBR), which allows rapid visualization, detection, and removal of blob defects of a variety of sizes and shapes from different types of microarrays using their .CEL files. Removal of the affected probes in the blob-defects using MBR was shown to significantly improve sensitivity and FDR compared to leaving the affected probes in the analysis."
Operating system: cross platform (Java)
URL: http://liulab.dfci.harvard.edu/Software/MBR/MBR.htm.html

OncoSNP

Authors: Christopher Yau
Operating system: MATLAB, Linux only
Licenses: For collaborators only
URL: https://sites.google.com/site/oncosnp/
References: ?

PennCNV

Authors: Wang et al.
What: Copy-number variant (CNV) analysis.
Chip types: Illumina, but also possible with Affymetrix GWS5 & GWS6.
Operating system: Linux, OS X, Windows. Languages: C and Perl.
URL: http://www.openbioinformatics.org/penncnv/
References: Wang K, Li M, Hadley D, Liu R, Glessner J, Grant S, Hakonarson H, Bucan M. PennCNV: an integrated hidden Markov model designed for high-resolution copy number variation detection in whole-genome SNP genotyping data. Genome Research 17:1665-1674, 2007.

PerfectMatch

What: Position-Dependent-Nearest-Neighbor (PDNN) Model by the original authors - "A PC program for Affymetrix microarray data analysis using PDNN model".
Operating system: Windows.
URL: http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/~zhangli/PerfectMatch/
References: Zhang L, Miles, MF, and Aldape KD. A model of molecular interactions on short oligonucleotide microarrays. Nature Biotechnology, 2003, 21, 818-821.

PhyloTrac

What: "PhyloTrac is an application for the visualization and analysis of PhyloChip microarrays. The PhyloChip is a popular 16S rRNA gene microarray for microbial surveys, and has been successfully used to study the microbial diversity of several interesting environments."
Operating system: Mac OS X, Linux, and Windows.
URL: http://www.phylotrac.org/
Authors: J. Ravel et al.
References:

PICNIC (Predicting Integral Copy Numbers In Cancer)

Authors: Greenman, C.D et al.
What: "[...] includes improved normalisation of the data together with determination of underlying copy number for each segment by genome wide analysis of allele ratio and signal strength data. The data is subsequently rescaled and plotted onto its predicted underlying integer value and segmentation applied (it should be noted that rescaling the raw data to the underlying absolute copy number can affect the spread of the data points)."
Chip types: GenomeWideSNP_6
Operating system: MATLAB
URL: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/Software/PICNIC/
URL 2: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/genetics/CGP/CopyNumberMapping/Affy_SNP6.shtml
References: Greenman, C.D et al. (submitted)

PLASQ, PLASQ10K, PLASQ500K

Authors: LaFramboise T et al., Department of Medical Oncology,Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
What: Genotyping, copy-number analysis.
Chip types: 10K, 100K, 500K.
Operating system: R
URL: http://mendel.cwru.edu/laframboiselab/software.php
References: LaFramboise T, Harrington D, Weir BA. PLASQ: a generalized linear model-based procedure to determine allelic dosage in cancer cells from SNP array data. Biostatistics. April 2007, 8(2):323-36.

ProbeMapper

Authors: JD Allen et al., Quantitative Biomedical Research Initiative, Southwestern Medical Center.
What: "This software allows users to find associations between Entrez Gene IDs and microarray probe IDs for eight major gene expression platforms."
Operating system: Online service as well as R package
URL: http://qbrc.swmed.edu/software/probemapper-live/
URL: https://cran.r-project.org//web/packages/probemapper/

PuMaQC (Public Microarray Data Quality Control)

Authors: JP. Corte-Real and PV. Nazarov
What: "A robust, easy to use, all-in-one pipeline for public microarray data handling based on 3 sequential steps: i) search for raw Affymetrix data in GEO; ii) import and preprocessing of CEL files; iii) QC/QA with identification and removal of low quality arrays."
Operating system: Any that runs Affymetrix Power Tools and R.
URL: http://sablab.net/PuMaQC/

QuantiSNP

Authors: Wang et al.
What: Copy-number variant (CNV) analysis.
Chip types: Illumina, but QuantiSNP v1.1 supports Affymetrix as well.
Operating system: Linux (32-bit & 64-bit), ...???
URL: http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/QuantiSNP/.
Forum: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/quantisnp
References: Colella S. et al. QuantiSNP: an Objective Bayes Hidden-Markov Model to detect and accurately map copy number variation using SNP genotyping data. Nucleic Acids Res, 2007, 35, 2013-2025.

RAE

What: For paired tumor-normal log2 CN ratios...
Chip types: Affymetrix, Illumina, ... (any total CN platform for which one can run CBS)
Operating system: R (a set of R and shell scripts; not packaged)
URL: http://cbio.mskcc.org/downloads/rae/
Reference: Taylor BS, Barretina J, Socci ND, DeCarolis P, Ladanyi M, Meyerson M, Singer S, Sander C. Functional copy-number alterations in cancer. PLoS ONE. 2008 Sep 11;3(9):e3179.

rMAT

What: "rMAT is an open-source R package based on the popular MAT software for the normalization, detection and quantification of ChIP-enriched regions. rMAT has been written from scratch in C and R and provides an efficient implementation of the functionality of MAT as well novel statistical normalization techniques not available in the original MAT. [...]
Operation systems: R
URL: http://wiki.rglab.org/index.php?title=Public:RMAT
References: (1) A. Droit, C. Cheung, and R. Gottardo (2010). rMAT - an R/Bioconductor package for analyzing ChIP-chip experiments,Bioinformatics, 26:678-679. (2) W. E. Johnson, Li, W., Meyer, C. A., Gottardo, R., Carroll, J. S., Brown, M., and Liu, X. S. (2006). Model-based analysis of tiling-arrays for ChIP-chip. PNAS 103:12457-12462.

SEURAT

Authors: Gribov A et al.
What: SEURAT is a software tool which provides interactive visualization capability for the integrated analysis of high-dimensional gene expression data. Gene expression data can be analyzed together with associated clinical data, array CGH (comparative genomic hybridization), SNP array (single nucleotide polymorphism) data and available gene annotations in an integrated manner. The different data types are organized by a comprehensive data manager.
URL: http://seurat.r-forge.r-project.org/
References: Gribov A et al. SEURAT: visual analytics for the integrated analysis of microarray data. BMC Med Genomics, , 2010.
Operating system: R+Java

SNPMaP

Authors: Davis et al.
What: "The SNPMaP package for R provides a framework for the analysis of SNPMaP (SNP microarrays and pooling) genome-wide association data using the tools available in the increasingly popular Open Source statistical computing environment."
Chip types: Mapping250K_{Nsp|Sty}, GenomeWideSNP_5, GenomeWideSNP_6.
Operating system: R
URL: http://sgdp.iop.kcl.ac.uk/snpmap/
References: Davis, O.S.P., Plomin, R., & Schalkwyk, L.C. (submitted for publication). The SNPMaP package for R: A framework for genome-wide association using DNA pooling on microarrays, 2008.

SOMATICs

Authors: Davis et al.
What: ...
Chip types: Illumina.
Operating system: R
URL: http://www.lerner.ccf.org/gmi/igac/SOMsuppScriptR080412.txt (a script)
References: Assié, G.; LaFramboise, T.; Platzer, P.; Bertherat, J.; Stratakis, C. A. & Eng, C. SNP arrays in heterogeneous tissue: highly accurate collection of both germline and somatic genetic information from unpaired single tumor samples. Am J Hum Genet, 2008.

Tumor Aberration Prediction Suite (TAPS)

Authors: M. Rasmussen et al.
Operating system: R
URL: http://array.medsci.uu.se/taps/

TuMult

What: "TuMult was developed for the analysis of several tumors from the same patient. Using the chromosome breakpoints these tumors have in common, TuMult reconstructs the tumor lineage and the sequence of chromosome aberrations occurring during tumorigenesis. TuMult may be applied to any kind of copy number data."
Chip types: Affymetrix, Illumina
Operating system: R
URL: http://bioserv.rpbs.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~letouze/TuMult/ALGORITHM.html
References: Letouzé, E.; Allory, Y.; Bollet, M. A.; Radvanyi, F. & Guyon, F. Analysis of the copy number profiles of several tumor samples from the same patient reveals the successive steps in tumorigenesis. Genome Biol, 2010.

VanillaICE

Author: Robert Scharpf et al.
What: "Hidden Markov model for identifying chromosomal alterations in high-throughput SNP arrays."
Chip types: Affymetrix, ...
URL: https://www.bioconductor.org//packages/release/bioc/html/VanillaICE.html

X:MAP

Description: Exon array analysis.
Chip types: Human, Mouse, and Rat Exon 1.0 ST.
Operating system: Has an R interface.
References: [1] Yates T, Okoniewski MJ, and Miller CJ. X:Map: annotation and visualization of genome structure for Affymetrix exon array analysis, Nucleic Acids Research, 2007. [2] Okoniewski MJ, Yates T, Dibben S, and Miller CJ, An annotation infrastructure for the analysis and interpretation of Affymetrix exon array data, Genome Biology 2007.
URL: http://xmap.picr.man.ac.uk/

Related software

Affymetrix Fusion Software Developers Kit (SDK)
Author: Affymetrix Inc.
What: A file parser library written C++ and Java that can read most of Affymetrix Data File Formats, e.g. CDF, CEL, CHP, and BPMAP.
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/fusion/

Affymetrix CEL File Conversion Tool

Author: Affymetrix Inc.
What: The cell intensity file (CEL) File Conversion Tool converts all Affymetrix CEL files in a specified directory from version 3 format (ASCII - MAS 5 compatible format) to and from version 4 format (binary - GCOS compatible format).

URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/devnettools.affx

Affymetrix CDF File Conversion Tool

Author: Affymetrix Inc.
What: The chip definition file (CDF) File Conversion Tool will convert all Affymetrix CDF files (GCOS library files) in a specified directory from its current ASCII format to a new binary format that will be used in future versions of the GCOS software. DO NOT use this tool to convert library files managed by the GCOS 1.1 or below software as that software does not understand the new binary format.
URL: http://www.affymetrix.com/support/developer/tools/devnettools.affx

AssociationViewer

What: "A Java application used in whole genome analysis to display SNPs in a genomic context. Supplementary data is downloaded from various public data sources on the fly and saved locally in a cache. Custom data can be added as supplementary tracks. "
Operating system: Java (cross Operating system)
Author: Armand Valsesia and Olivier Martin
URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/associationview/

CELUtil

Author: D. Paladini et al., 2005.
URL: http://www.bioinformatics.org/celutil/
Genome Environment Browser (GEB)
Operating system: Java (cross Operating system)Reference: Huntley D et al., Genome Environment Browser (GEB): a dynamic browser for visualising high-throughput experimental data in the context of genome features, BMC Bioinformatics, Nov 2008, 9:501, DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-9-501.URL: http://web.bioinformatics.ic.ac.uk/geb/

GoldSurfer2

Authors:
What: "A comprehensive tool for the analysis and visualization of whole genome association studies"
Chip types: Non-specific, i.e. imports genotyping data in some standard file formats.
Operating system: Java (cross Operating system)
URL: http://www.well.ox.ac.uk/~fredrikp/gs2.html
References: Pettersson, F., Jonsson, O. and Cardon, L.R., GOLDsurfer: three dimensional display of linkage disequilibrium. Bioinformatics. 2004;20(17):3241-3.

Ultrasome

Authors: Bjorn Nilsson et al. (Broad etc).What: "Ultrasome is an efficient methodology for detecting and delineating gains and losses of chromosomal material in DNA copy-number data."
References: Bjorn Nilsson; Mikael Johansson; Fatima Al-Shahrour; Anne E. Carpenter; and Benjamin L. Ebert. "Ultrasome: efficient aberration caller for copy number studies of ultra-high resolution". Bioinformatics (2009); DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp091
URL http://www.broad.mit.edu/ultrasome/

MS-DOS subst

What: The [Windows/MS-DOS] console 'subst' utility makes a drive letter to any Windows directory, e.g. subst Y: 'C:/Documents and Settings/JohnDoe/Documents/My Research/Projects/aroma.affymetrix/ProjectA/'. This provides a workaround when a pathname becomes too long for Windows. The maximum number of symbols in a pathname is 256, including file separators '/' or '\', but excluding the drive letter, and initial file separator (e.g. "C:/"), and the string terminator ('\0'), cf. MSDN - Naming a File or Directory. In R v2.8.x, the limit is one symbol less, i.e. 255.
Operating system: Windows
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subst