[ssml] Matrix manipulation tool

[Dan Bolser]

On Wed, 18 May 2005, Robert Citek wrote:

>
>On May 18, 2005, at 4:24 PM, Kevin Karplus wrote:
>> Goel, Manisha asked
>>> I need to analyse some substitution matrices, like calculate relative
>>> entropy and matrix subtractions etc.
>>> I was wondering if any simple tool is available for such  
>>> calculations or
>>> do people always use inhouse mathematics programs to do this ?
>>
>> It probably takes less time to write your own tiny programs in Perl or
>> Python than to find and learn how to use someone else's.
>>
>> If you want a language with good support for matrices, you could try
>> Matlab or even R.
>
>If you don't have Matlab, you could use the Open Source equivalent:  
>Octave.


If you do use R it might be worth checking out the bioconductor project,
which aims to produce standard bioinformatics analysis tools in R.
Although it focuses on microarray clustering, their may be some stuff
already done to look at alignment statistics.


>
>Regards,
>- Robert
>
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