most suitable platform?
Massimo Pinto
Monday, 06 October 2008 10:44 UTC
Greetings,
I am post-doctoral fellow in Rome and I am making my first steps toward cDNA microarray data analysis. At present, I know rather little about it.
As I write, my laptop PC is about to pass to better life, and it’s time I consider purchasing a new computer.
My question for the users of this forum is linked to the need of purchasing a new computer: what computer platforms – to date – have been given most attention for the development of software that analyzes microarray data? This could substantially influence my purchase.
Thank you, Massimo.
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First thing u need is atleast 4 GB RAM, a quad core processor would be good if u can do multi-threading and 500 GB hard disk would be good enough to handle the data. When it comes to operating systems, if u r going to use the proprietary software from Affymetrix or Illumina, Windows is a must have. If u are planning on developing your own software, then i would suggest configuring Ubuntu with multi core processing ability.
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Dear Massimo,
I regularly use a Laptop of 2GB RAM PIV with 120GB HDD. I don’t think you require really high end system except RAM.
Rather than opting any software for data analysis you should learn R bioconductor http://www.bioconductor.org/ libraries to process the microarray data.
If you dealing with Affy, I would recommend LIMMA (Linear Models for Microarray Data).
If you need further information.
Please write to me directly mayank.k@ocimumbio.com
Regards
Mayank -
Arun and Mayank, thank you both.
I will be given an Affimetrix output, but from there on I guess I will be on R bioconductor, indeed.
I predict I will be back on this forum one day.
Thank you!
Ciao,
Massimo -
Massimo,
All the best. Please let me know, If you need any help regarding Affy data analysis because I just finished one service of Affy data.
regards
Mayank
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Thank you. Most probably, I will
Massimo
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