ITALICS (ITerative and Alternative normaLIzation and Copy number calling for affymetrix Snp arrays) is a normalization method that estimates both biological and non-relevant effects in an alternate, iterative manner, accurately eliminating irrelevant effects.
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U900 Institut Curie – INSERM/Mines ParisTech “Bioinformatics and Computational Systems Biology of Cancer
VIZARD is a Java program for analysis and visualization of Affymetrix GeneChip® data.VIZARD includes several integrated tools for filtering, sorting, clustering and visualization of gene expression data as well as tools for discovery of regulatory motifs in upstream sequences. It also includes annotation and upstream sequence databases for the majority of genes represented on the Affymetrix Arabidopsis 8K GeneChip® array.
When VIZARD was created its name originated from VIsualiZe microARray Data. Now it does much more than visualization of gene expression data, however, we have decided to keep the name.
It is available free of charge for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes. To read full text of the terms under which the program is distributed, click here.