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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ Acuity is a complete microarray database, data mining, ▄█▀▀
▄██ ▀██ and visualization package that has been designed and █▓ █████▀
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▀█▄▄ Acuity's Normalization Wizard can normalize an ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ button. Choose to normalize on all spots, control █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ spots, negative controls or any other subset of spots █▓ █▀████▄
▀▀████▄▄ that you can specify with a fully general database ▀▄ ▄███▓▀
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▀█▄▄ Normalizations are easy to apply and remove so that ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ filter out noise from your data: filter on replicate █▓ █████▀
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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ Replicate Analysis ▄█▀▀
▄██ ▀██ Tracking replicate substances and microarrays is █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ intrinsic to Acuity analyses. Replicate substances are █▓ █▀████▄
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▄██ ▀██ Find Matching Expression █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ Use Acuity's Match Expression function to investigate █▓ █▀████▄
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▄██ ▀██ Many Clustering Methods █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ There is no single analysis technique that can be used █▓ █▀████▄
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▄▄▀▀██▄▄ a large choice of similarity metrics, so that you can ▄█▀▀
▄██ ▀██ use the analysis that is appropriate for your data. █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ Use the output of one algorithm as input to the next. █▓ █▀████▄
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▄██ ▀██ All Acuity analyses have been optimized for speed and █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ memory use on very large data sets so that a standard █▓ █▀████▄
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▀█▄▄ All Acuity analysis operations and results are stored ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▓██▄ ▄▀ displayed in the Acuity project tree for each data █▓ █▀████▄
▀▀████▄▄ set. You can easily reproduce an analysis, or remove ▀▄ ▄███▓▀
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▀█▄▄ Acuity Quicklists are a powerful method of saving ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ annotations. With the click of the mouse you can save █▓ █████▀
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▓██▄ ▄▀ Reports and Scripting █▓ █▀████▄
▀▀████▄▄ Like GenePix Pro, Acuity supports standard scripting ▀▄ ▄███▓▀
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▄██ ▀██ visualizations. Acuity displays clustering results in █▓ █████▀
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▄██ ▀██ The Color Table is the central data view in Acuity. █▓ █████▀
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▀█▄▄ Display dataset, microarray or substance summaries at ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▓██▄ ▄▀ Single Microarray View █▓ █▀████▄
▀▀████▄▄ You always have access to your original raw data in ▀▄ ▄███▓▀
▄▀ ▀███▓▄ Acuity, including GenePix analysis images. View your ▄▄████▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ Web Links █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ With Acuity's web links functionality you are only █▓ █▀████▄
▀▀████▄▄ ever a click away from looking up a substance in any ▀▄ ▄███▓▀
▄▀ ▀███▓▄ web-based database. Define as many web links as you ▄▄████▀▀
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▀█▄▄ Acuity now has additional tools for managing multiple ▀▀▄▄██▀▀
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▄██ ▀██ Full Database Queries █▓ █████▀
▓██▄ ▄▀ Construct datasets with fully general queries across █▓ █▀████▄
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