This package provides some basic methods for meta-analysis In this package we provide some basic utilities for performing meta-analysis. We included methods for dealing with missing values, or measurements with a variance of zero. For developing or testing meta-analysis methods a mock up data model is integrated. Additionally did we implement a method for performing significance based methods proposed by Fisher and Rhodes. For visualizing the results three methods were added. Some functions were taken from the GeneMeta and RankProd packages in order to implement parallel versions of the existing methods. Please refer to the original authors if you make use of these implementations. Software Depends: R (>= 2.10), Biobase (>= 2.4), qvalue, RankProd, RColorBrewer, GeneMeta, gplots, genefilter, impute Imports: RColorBrewer, GeneMeta, gplots, genefilter, impute Suggests: snow Karl Kugler <karl@eigenlab.net> Karl Kugler, Laurin Mueller, Matthias Wieser LGPL 2011-04-11 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MADAM