http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/04/28/microsoft-aims-to-help-scientists-move-past-excel-make-sense-of-gene-data-overload/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/04/28/microsoft-aims-to-help-scientists-move-past-excel-make-sense-of-gene-data-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-62686 ss Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:36:08 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=22001#comment-62686 statistical environment <a href="http://r-project.org" rel="nofollow">R</a> and scripting language <a href="http://www.bioperl.org" rel="nofollow">perl</a> do an infinitely better job than excel. anybody serious about informatics in biology uses these or similar tools, not excel. pre-packaged solutions are tricky in biology because of high variance in assay platforms between and even within vendors' offerings. statistical environment R and scripting language perl do an infinitely better job than excel. anybody serious about informatics in biology uses these or similar tools, not excel. pre-packaged solutions are tricky in biology because of high variance in assay platforms between and even within vendors’ offerings.

]]> http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/04/28/microsoft-aims-to-help-scientists-move-past-excel-make-sense-of-gene-data-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-55191 joshuadf Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:23:22 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=22001#comment-55191 The <a href="http://www.bhi.washington.edu/News-and-Events/Announcements/UW-TO-USE-MICROSOFT-AMALGA-TO-SUPPORT-CLINICAL-AND-TRANSLATIONAL-RESEARCH.html" rel="nofollow">UW is also piloting Amalga (formerly Azyxxi)</a>. I know nothing beyond public information, but the little I've seen does not seem to be anywhere near as easy to use as Excel. On the other hand, the researchers <a href="http://www.iths.org/bmi" rel="nofollow">I talk to</a> definitely see the need to move beyond Excel. The UW is also piloting Amalga (formerly Azyxxi). I know nothing beyond public information, but the little I’ve seen does not seem to be anywhere near as easy to use as Excel. On the other hand, the researchers I talk to definitely see the need to move beyond Excel.

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