Table 1 ScreenSifter in comparison to related tools
From: ScreenSifter: analysis and visualization of RNAi screening data
Input file | Metadata | Data-base | QC/ Normalization | Hits Identification | On target analysis | Gene Ontology | Protein-protein interaction | Programming language | Required programming knowledge | GUI | Operating system | Output results | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
cellHTS [5] | Text file | Description files need to be loaded along with data file | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | R package | Yes | No | Windows, Linux, Mac (R command) | HTML output, |
RNAither [6] | Text file | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | R package | Yes | No | Windows, Linux, Mac (R command) | HTML output | |
Screensaver [7] | Excel workbooks | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Java | No | Yes | Cross-platform | Excel workbooks, SD files |
HTSanalyzeR [8] | Pre-processed data from cellHTS2 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | R package | No | Windows, Linux, Mac (R command) | Figures, | |
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ScreenSifter | CSV file | Customized Project, Screen and Table data description through GUI | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Python, wxPython | No | Yes | GUI: Windows, Mac | Tab-delimited text file, visualization plots |
Source code: Linux |