Abstract
Today, web-based data analysis pipelines exist for a wide variety of microarray platforms, such as ordinary gene-centered arrays, exon arrays and SNP arrays. However, most of the available software tools provide only limited support for reverse-phase protein arrays (RPPA), as relevant inherent properties of the corresponding datasets are not taken into account. Thus, we developed the web-based data analysis pipeline RPPApipe, which was specifically tailored to suit the characteristics of the RPPA platform and encompasses various tools for data preprocessing, statistical analysis, clustering and pathway analysis. All tools which are part of the RPPApipe software were implemented using R/Bioconductor. The software was embedded into our web-based ZBIT Bioinformatics Toolbox which is a customized instance of the Galaxy platform. RPPApipe is freely available under GNU Public License from http://webservices.cs.uni-tuebingen.de. A full documentation of the tool can be found on the corresponding website http://www.cogsys.cs.uni-tuebingen.de/software/RPPApipe.
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