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When a large number of traits are biologically relevant, as is common for clinical studies of patients with varying sex, age, genotype and medical background, proper randomization can be extremely difficult to prepare by hand, especially because traits may affect biological inferences, such as differential expression, in a combinatorial manner. Here we present ARTS (automated randomization of multiple traits for study design), which aids researchers in study design by automatically optimizing batch assignment for any number of samples, any number of traits and any batch size.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability and implementation: ARTS is implemented in Perl and is available at github.com\/mmaiensc\/ARTS. ARTS is also available in the Galaxy Tool Shed, and can be used at the Galaxy installation hosted by the UIC Center for Research Informatics (CRI) at galaxy.cri.uic.edu.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0mmaiensc@uic.edu<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btu075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,2,4]],"date-time":"2014-02-04T03:50:43Z","timestamp":1391485843000},"page":"1637-1639","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["ARTS: automated randomization of multiple traits for study design"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"30","author":[{"given":"Mark","family":"Maienschein-Cline","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Center for Research Informatics, Institute for Interventional Health Informatics, 2Department of Medicine, 3Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 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