The MathWorks last week launched Bioinformatics Toolbox 3.0 for its MATLAB software, which enables computational biologists and research scientists to prototype algorithms and build applications for drug research, genetic engineering, and other genomics and proteomics projects.
According to the Mathworks, Bioinformatics Toolbox 3.0 offers a combination of enhanced import, analysis and visualization capabilities that are particularly useful for biologists and researchers who work with microarray and mass spectrometry data. Users can now perform more precise analysis of various forms of microarray data, including array-based comparative genomic hybridization, tiling, SNP, and gene expression arrays, the company said.