Modeling Dose-response Microarray Data in Early Drug Development Experiments Using R

Introduction.- Part I: Dose-response Modeling: An Introduction.- Estimation Under Order Restrictions.- The Likelihood Ratio Test.- Part II: Dose-response Microarray Experiments.- Functional Genomic Dose-response Experiments.- Adjustment for Multiplicity.- Test for Trend.- Order Restricted Bisclusters.- Classification of Trends in Dose-response Microarray Experiments Using Information Theory Selection Methods.- Multiple Contrast Test.- Confidence Intervals for the Selected Parameters.- Case Study Using GUI in R: Gene Expression Analysis After Acute Treatment With Antipsychotics.

Dan Lin holds a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Hasselt University, Belgium, where her research focused on the analysis of 'omics' data from early drug development experiments. She currently works as a biometrician at Pfizer animal health research and development, where she focuses on discovery and clinical studies for biological and pharmaceutical veterinary products.

Ziv Shkedy is an associate professor for biostatistics and bioinformatics at Hasselt University, Belgium. Dr. Shkedy is a co-author of numerous publications applying statistical methods to infectious diseases data, non-clinical experiments in early drug development and the analysis of microarray and gene expression data. Over the last 15 years, Dr. Shkedy has collaborated with European organizations (ECDC, EMCDDA) on many projects relating to infectious diseases and with pharmaceutical partners on clinical, non-clinical and early drug development projects. He served as an associate editor for Biometrics from 2007 to 2011.

Dr. Yekutieli is Senior Lecturer at Tel Aviv University. He has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from Tel Aviv University. His research interests include analysis of large-scale data sets, multiple testing and Bayesian analysis. He is currently the Harry W. Reynolds Visiting International Professor at the Wharton school, University of Pennsylvania.

Dhammika Amaratunga is Senior Research Fellow in Nonclinical Statistics at Johnson & Johnson Pharma, where he has been involved in the statistical analysis of high-throughput genomics data since the late 1990s. He and his collaborators have numerous publications and presentations, including a book, "Exploration and Analysis of DNA Microarray and Protein Array Data," which was one of the first fully authored books on this topic. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has a B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from the University ofColombo (Sri Lanka) and a

From the book reviews:

"This edited volume is designed for the analysis of dose-response microarray data in a pharmaceutical environment. ... The book includes many useful topics and procedures for graduate students, practitioners, and researchers ... in the arena of bioinformatics and statistical bioinformatics. The contributions are written to be accessible to readers with moderate to strong knowledge of statistics, computer science, and biology, since this is a genuine multidisciplinary area." (S. E. Ahmed, Technometrics, Vol. 55 (3), August, 2013)