[GeneX-dev] Re: CyberT Registration

[Harry M. <man...@ho...>]

Hi John,

Sorry for the delay in answering.  


John Boyce wrote:
> 
> Hi Harry,
> I am using http://genex.ncgr.org/cgi-bin/genex/cybert/CyberTDB-7.0.pl
> site and have had a small number of problems.  Firstly if I ask for the
> gene list output in excel format I get a file, save it to my computer
> and it looks like an excel file but as soon as I try to open it it
> crashes excel (PC win 97 version).  

I've tried this on a variety of inputs and the Excel files I get back open correctly with Star Office, WingzPro and Excel2000 (running under vmware as well as running native).  I don't have excel 97
on any machine - can anyone else verify that this is the case?  

I do see that there is one non-printable character at the end of some lines in Excel2000 (tho not in WingzPro), and Star Office does have to be explicitly formatted 'default' to see all the header
lines.

Alternatively, if the datase that you're using is very large, it might cause a problem; if it's not proprietary and you wouldn't mind shipping it to me, I can try to debug it locally.



> Also I ask for the graphics to be
> printed (2 per page or 1 per page) but get only a single graph out
> entitled 'does difference predict significance'.  Am I missing
> something?

Some graphics pages may be omitted if there isn't data to generate them - so if 'significant' genes aren't found, no gpaphics will be drawn for them.  

What analyses were you trying to do (C+E or Paired?) and what were the parameters you were using?  And again, the data file would help to debug this...


> However I am getting a nice gene list which agrees fairly well with what
> I expect from my other analyses.

Well, that's a relief, I guess ;).  what other tools are you using and how do they compare with CyberT in terms of real utility for a biologist?  I admit that the CyberT interface is pretty crude, but
we're really trying for core utility and therefore very little user interface niceties have been implemented.

> John
> 
> Harry Mangalam wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for registering!  Which loacation are you using it at?
> >
> > UCI [ http://genomics.biochem.uci.edu/genex/cybert ]
> > gets the latest updates, but NCGR [ http://genex.ncgr.org/genex/cybert ]
> > is updated only slightly later and runs on a much faster machine with more RAM.
> >
> > Please let us know what else you'd like to see it do..
> >
> > Cheers
> > Harry
> >
> > John Boyce wrote:
> > >
> > > Registering for cyberT
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> John Boyce
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Cheers,
Harry

Harry J Mangalam -- (949) 856 2847 (v&f) -- hj...@nc... || man...@ho...