safum: statistical analysis of SSCP fingerprints using PCA projections, dendrograms and diversity estimators

The program safum provides a smart interface to import, visualize and compare fingerprinting profiles, especially on capillary electrophoresis single strand conformation polymorphism data, in conjunction with basic statistical analysis tools. It includes principal component analysis, two- or three-dimensional representations, dendrograms based on Euclidean distance, and easily exportable files for subsequent applications. safum is useful for the analysis of spatial or temporal sequences of microbial community fingerprints obtained with an ABI prism sequencer.

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