Microarray version 0.3
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Microarray is a suite of object oriented Perl Modules for the handling and analysis of microarray experiment data. These include modules for handling common formats of microarray files, modules for the programmatic abstraction of a microarray experiment, and for the output of a variety of images describing microarray experiment data. 

This distribution is not yet fully tested, and some packages are not fully implemented - specifically Microarray::File::Data::Agilent and Microarray::File::Data::Manor_Ouptput. 

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Image::ExifTool
  GD
  GD::Image
  Statistics::Descriptive
  FileHandle
  File::Slurp
  File::Basename

The test scripts accompanying the modules require the following modules and libraries:

  Test::More
  Test::Group
  Test::Differences
  Test::Deep

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2007 by Christopher Jones

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself
