Cluster and TreeView Guide

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Cluster and TreeView are programs that provide a computational and graphical
environment for analyzing data from DNA microarray experiments, or other genomic
datasets. The program Cluster (which will soon be getting a new name) organizes and
analyzes the data in a number of different ways. TreeView allows the organized data to
be visualized and browsed. The next major release of this software (scheduled for early
2000) will integrate these two programs together into one application.
This manual is intended as a reference for using the software, and not as a comprehensive
introduction to the methods employed. Many of the methods are drawn from standard
statistical cluster analysis. There are excellent textbooks available on cluster analysis
which are listed in the bibliography at the end. The bibliography also contains citations
for recent publications in the biological sciences, especially genomics, that employ
methods similar to those used here.