Microarray Probe Expression Measures, Data Normalization and Statistical Validation

Microarray Probe Expression Measures, Data Normalization and Statistical Validation

DNA microarray technology is a high-throughput method for gaining information on gene function. Microarray technology is based on deposition/synthesis, in an ordered manner, on a solid surface, of thousands of EST sequences/genes/oligonucleotides. Due to the high number of generated datapoints, computational tools are essential in microarray data analysis and mining to grasp knowledge from expe...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

Normalization of Microarray Data

DNA microarrays are a powerful technology for analysis of gene expression levels within cells. Both the cDNA and oligonucleotide technologies for microarrays are fairly young and are prone to a broad collection of errors and inaccuracies [KYML02]. In this paper we briefly discuss some sources of error and detail a variety of methods for normalizing the data with respect to some of these error s...

Normalization and Differential Gene Expression Analysis of Microarray Data

DNA microarray technologies have the capability of simultaneously measuring the abundance of thousands of mRNA-sequences. Analysis of microarray data involves many different steps such as image analysis, background correction, and normaliza-tion, but also more classical statistical analysis such as testing for significant differences between groups of arrays. The work presented in this thesis i...

Normalization of cDNA microarray data.

Normalization means to adjust microarray data for effects which arise from variation in the technology rather than from biological differences between the RNA samples or between the printed probes. This paper describes normalization methods based on the fact that dye balance typically varies with spot intensity and with spatial position on the array. Print-tip loess normalization provides a wel...