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limma

limma

The limma (limma-voom) tool is for the analysis of gene expression of microarray and RNA-seq data. The limma algorithm uses a generalized linear model (GLM), log-normal distribution, trimmed mean of M-values, t- and F-tests.

Topic

Sequencing; RNA-Seq

Details

  • Operation: RNA-Seq analysis; Differential gene expression analysis
  • Software interface: Command-line user interface; Library
  • Language: R
  • Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows
  • License: GNU General Public License v>=2
  • Cost: Free
  • Version name: 3.52.2
  • Maturity: Mature
  • Credit: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Victorian State Government Operational Infrastructure Support and Australian Government NHMRC IRIISS.
  • Contact: Gordon Smyth smyth _at_ wehi.edu.au
  • Collection: Bioconductor

Publications

Ritchie ME, Phipson B, Wu D, Hu Y, Law CW, Shi W, Smyth GK "limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies." Nucleic Acids Res. 2015 Apr 20;43(7):e47. 20. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkv007
PMID: 25605792
PMCID: PMC4402510


Law CW, Chen Y, Shi W, Smyth GK "voom: Precision weights unlock linear model analysis tools for RNA-seq read counts." Genome Biol. 2014 Feb 3;15(2):R29. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2014-15-2-r29
PMID: 24485249
PMCID: PMC4053721


Huber W, Carey VJ, Gentleman R, Anders S, Carlson M, Carvalho BS, Bravo HC, Davis S, Gatto L, Girke T, Gottardo R, Hahne F, Hansen KD, Irizarry RA, Lawrence M, Love MI, MacDonald J1, Obenchain V, Oleś AK, Pagès H, Reyes A, Shannon P, Smyth GK, Tenenbaum D, Waldron L, Morgan M "Orchestrating high-throughput genomic analysis with Bioconductor." Nat Methods. 2015 Feb;12(2):115-21. https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.3252
PMID: 25633503
PMCID: PMC4509590


Gentleman RC, Carey VJ, Bates DM, Bolstad B, Dettling M, Dudoit S, Ellis B, Gautier L, Ge Y, Gentry J, Hornik K, Hothorn T, Huber W, Iacus S, Irizarry R, Leisch F, Li C, Maechler M, Rossini AJ, Sawitzki G, Smith C, Smyth G, Tierney L, Yang JY, Zhang J. "Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics." Genome Biol. 2004;5(10):R80. Epub 2004 Sep 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2004-5-10-r80
PMID: 15461798
PMCID: PMC545600


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