Analytical Process Manager

Overview of Analytical Processes

Analytical processes are special SAS macro programs that perform data manipulations and statistical calculations on the experimental data that you have loaded into SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions. These processes use SAS to generate analysis data sets, listings, statistical results, and graphs. Analytical processes are reusable and flexible. They can range in functionality from very simple data displays to complex statistical modeling.

Scientists and statisticians can run analytical processes against any experiment data set by providing appropriate values for input parameters. After you select an analytical process to run, a parameters window requests the information required for successful execution. The parameter values are specific to the data set at hand, but you do not need to edit the code after you have written and loaded the analytical process into SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions.

The following sections describe the analytical processes provided with SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions for use with your experiment data:

Input Engines for importing data

Input engines are tools that can pull data from instrumentation systems and load the data into the data warehouses for SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions. Input Engines are specific to input data structures. For each analytical instrumentation system, there is a separate access engine that knows how to pull data out of the instrumentation system's data structure. It is possible for an Input Engine to support instrumentation from more than one vendor using standardized data structures.

Refer to Overview of Input Engines and Input Engine Recommendations for more information.

 

Analytical Processes for Microarray-Specific Data Formats

Analytical Processes for Proteomics-Specific Data Formats

Analytical Processes for Microarray and Proteomics Data Formats

Analytical Processes for Genetic Marker Data Formats

Analytical Processes for Generic Data

See also:
Overview of the Analytical Process Selector
Overview of Analytical Process Results
SAS Scientific Discovery Solutions Analytical Processes