I am going to be analyzing a large number of gene arrays fairly soon (I leave for NY on sunday), and have spent a bit of time researching some of the clustering algorithms that are out there. It seems that I am going to have to roll my own right now to do exactly what I want, but as I'm not the best at algorithmic development {my name isn't Knuth}, I was wondering if any monks out there have had experience (or knew of projects) dealing with clustering and self-organizing maps, or even importing affymetrix data into a useable format.

I'm in the midst of sorting through the vast assortment of google'd information out there, but was wondering if some of you could point me to code/algorithms that I really should be looking at. (And even if you don't know of some, I'd love to here from monks who are using perl to do bioinformatics, specifically gene array analysis {I normally do other "bioinformatics" things, but this project needs doing ;-)})

In reply to SOM and clustering for gene array analysis (Affymetrix) in perl by dondelelcaro

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