Case Study: University of Leipzig achieves centralized web-based microarray analytics and enhanced collaboration with TIBCO Software

University of Leipzig Uses Spotfire to Improve Research Data Analysis

The University of Leipzig’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics, led by Dr. Markus Loeffler, needed a way to support researchers across disciplines and locations who work with high‑dimensional microarray data. The challenge was finding software that combined cutting‑edge statistical methods with the flexibility and extensibility required by computational biologists, statisticians and medical researchers, plus a web‑based deployment model to enforce “best practice” workflows and enable easy collaboration.

They implemented Insightful’s S+ArrayAnalyzer, a web‑deployed, S‑PLUS–compatible platform that integrates Bioconductor routines and supports custom extensions. Centralized deployment gave researchers interactive access to reliable microarray analyses, links to local and public databases, and easy-to-program web interfaces—improving collaboration, standardizing best practices across the institute, and providing a flexible, extensible toolkit for reproducible, high‑quality results.

University of Leipzig

Markus Loeffler

Manager