Section: New Software and Platforms
MetaMA
Meta-analysis for MicroArrays
Keywords: Transcriptomics - Meta-analysis - Differential analysis - Microarrays - Biostatistics
Functional Description
MetaMA is a specialised software for microarrays. It is an R package which combines either p-values or modified effect sizes from different studies to find differentially expressed genes. The main competitor of metaMA is geneMeta. Compared to geneMeta, metaMA offers an improvement for small sample size datasets since the corresponding modelling is based on shrinkage approaches.