# exploRase

## Explained...

#### overview

#### download

#### [ documentation ]

#### screenshots

### Manual

The best introduction to exploRase is the manual.

### Published papers

Several papers have been published on exploRase and its predecessor GeneGobi:

- Exploring Gene Expression Data, Using Plots
- Visual Methods for Data from Two Factor Single-Replicate Gene Expression Studies
- Lee, E.-K., Cook, D., Hofmann, H., Wurtele, E., Kim, D., Kim, J., and An, H. (2004) GeneGobi: Visual Data Analysis Tools for Microarray Data, COMPSTAT '04, Aug 22-27, 2004, Prague, Czech Republic, Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg, 1397-1404.

### Slides

Here are some slides from formal and informal presentations on exploRase and its predecessor GeneGobi.

- Informal presentation on exploRase.
- Informal presentation on GeneGobi.

### What are these weird filenames?

The exploRase data files are named according to the exploRase filename convention (EFC). The names of the files tell exploRase the type of data they contain, so that exploRase knows how to load them automatically. The table below describes the EFC:

type | data extension | file extension | example
--- | --- | --- | ---
transcriptomic data | gene | data | mittler.gene.data
proteomic data | prot | data | some-proteins.prot.data
metabolomic data | met | data | suh-yeon.met.data
gene information | gene | info | affy25k.gene.info
protein information | prot | info | some-proteins.prot.info
metabolite information | met | info | suh-yeons-metabolites.met.info
interesting entities |  | list | my-favorite-pathway.list
experimental design |  | design | mittler.design