Tools Electronic Data Analysis Service ELECTRAS

Tools Electronic Data Analysis Service (ELECTRAS) 

The electronic data analysis service (ELECTRAS), which was developed at the Com-puter-Chemie-Centrum of the University of Erlangen-Ntlmberg through a project supported by the DFN-Verein and the BMBF, is a web-based application which presents an interface to various kinds of data analysis methods. It offers the methods 

The data analysis module of ELECTRAS is twofold. One part was designed for general statistical data analysis of numerical data. The second part offers a module For analyzing chemical data. The difference between the two modules is that the module for mere statistics applies the stati.stical methods or rieural networks directly to the input data while the module for chemical data analysis also contains methods for the calculation ol descriptors for chemical structures (cl. Chapter 8) Descriptors, and thus structure codes, are calculated for the input structures and then the statistical methods and neural networks can be applied to the codes. 

Data input for both modules can be done via file upload, whereby the module for mere statistics reads in plain ASCI I files and the module For chemical data analysis takes the chemical structures in the Form of SD-files (cf. Chapter 2) as an input. In 

An additional feature of ELECTRAS is a module which provides an introduction to various data analysis techniques One part of this module provides a typical work flow for data analysis. It explains the important steps when conducting a data analysis and describes the output of the data analysis methods. The second part gives a description of the methods offered. This modvJe can be used both as a guideline for novice users and as a reference for experts. 

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