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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Integrates Cancer Research in the Lab and Classroom with MathW

"Researchers are typically interested in results, not programming. MATLAB enables us to think at a higher level of abstraction and spend less time developing, debugging, testing, and creating graphs. As a result, we get research results much faster." - Dr.Gil Alterovitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University

Bioinformatics Toolbox

Description

Data Import and Application Deployment


File Formats and Database Access

You can access standard file formats for biological data, online databases, and Web sites. Bioinformatics toolbox enables you to:

  •     Read sequence data from standard file formats, including FASTA, PDB, and SCF
  •     Read microarray data from file formats such as Affymetrix DAT, EXP, CEL, CHP, and CDF files; ImaGene® results format data; Agilent® Feature Extraction Software files; and GenePix® GPR and GAL files
  •     Read data from online databases such as GenBank, EMBL, NCBI BLAST, and PDB
  •     Import data directly from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus Web site with a single command
  •     Read cytogenetic banding information from NCBI ideograms or UCSC cytoband text files
  •     Read mass spectrometry data from MZXML and JCAMP-DX files

Sharing Algorithms and Deploying Applications

MATLAB provides tools that let you turn your data analysis program into a customized software application. These include tools for building graphical interfaces, a visual integrated development environment, and a profiler. MATLAB application deployment products let you integrate your MATLAB algorithms with existing C, C++, and Java™ applications, deploy the developed algorithms and custom interfaces as standalone applications, convert MATLAB algorithms into Microsoft® .NET or COM components that can be accessed from any COM-based application, and create Microsoft Excel® add-ins.

You can integrate MATLAB with commonly used bioinformatics tools such as BioPerl, SOAP-based Web services, and COM plug-ins.