Long Beach, California -– This Sunday, CLC bio and BioFormatix – a medical diagnostics software developer – will officially release their Bootstrapped Receiver Operating Characteristic (bROC) plug-in for CLC bio’s desktop software packages, CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench.

The plug-in and the process behind developing it will officially be presented during CLC bio’s workshop which is held at the ISMB conference in Long Beach, California, in rooms E-F on the 3rd level of the Hyatt Regency Long Beach, Sunday, July 15, 6-10 PM.

The bROC algorithm is used in the discovery of differentially expressed probes in microarray experiments and, unlike many competing approaches, bROC works well for experiments with a small number of experimental and biological replicates.

President at BioFormatix, Dariusz Wroblewski, PhD, states, “While the standard ROC is a non-parametric procedure that provides insight into the discriminatory properties of data features, the method is not efficient for gene expression experiments as they generally don’t produce a sufficient number of samples. The bROC plug-in overcomes that limitation by

resampling or ‘bootstrapping’ the expression data to produce a large number of simulated measurements that preserve the statistical properties of the original data. That means this plug-in can produce detailed curves of sensitivity versus specificity, as well as intuitive detection parameters, for all features of interest, the bROC plug-in nicely integrates with CLC bio’s user-friendly desktop software.”

Director of Global Partner Relations at CLC bio, Mikael Flensborg, adds, “It’s a pleasure to see how our market-leading platform is continually being enhanced by the number of companies who develop plug-ins to address special analyses that our general platform doesn’t encompass, to the benefit of all our users. This is something I’m personally looking forward to presenting at our ISMB workshop this Sunday!”

Workshop at the ISMB conference See the program and read more about the workshop, including the four external speakers:

https://www.clcbio.com/link.php?id=272