MeV Goose

We have gaggled the MultiExperiment Viewer (MeV). For an introduction to the software, please see the TM4 web site.

The MeV goose is most commonly used as follows:

1. Broadcast a microarray data set from the DMV to R.
2. Normalize the matrix in R.
3. Broadcast the matrix from R to MeV
4. Apply any of the (many!) analyses MeV offers.
5. Broadcast selected gene names back to the Gaggle. For instance, clustered genes to a Cytoscape network, or to select rows in the DMV.

The first two steps -- going through R to normalize the matrix, is not strictly necessary, but does, for example, make for better heat maps.