Asterias (\url{http://www.asterias.info}) is an integrated collection of
freely-accessible web tools for the analysis of gene expression and aCGH data.
Most of the tools use parallel computing (via MPI). Most of our applications
allow the user to obtain additional information for user-selected genes by
using clickable links in tables and/or figures. Our tools include:
normalization of expression and aCGH data; converting between different types
of gene/clone and protein identifiers; filtering and imputation; finding
differentially expressed genes related to patient class and survival data;
searching for models of class prediction; using random forests to search for
minimal models for class prediction or for large subsets of genes with
predictive capacity; searching for molecular signatures and predictive genes
with survival data; detecting regions of genomic DNA gain or loss. The
capability to send results between different applications, access to additional
functional information, and parallelized computation make our suite unique and
exploit features only available to web-based applications.Comment: web based application; 3 figure
