Background: The availability of microarrays measuring thousands of genes simultaneously across hundreds of biological conditions represents an opportunity to understand both indiv...
Curtis Huttenhower, Avi I. Flamholz, Jessica N. La...
Background: Many statistical methods have been proposed to identify disease biomarkers from gene expression profiles. However, from gene expression profile data alone, statistical...
Li Chen, Jianhua Xuan, Chen Wang, Ie-Ming Shih, Yu...
Background: One of the important goals of microarray research is the identification of genes whose expression is considerably higher or lower in some tissues than in others. We wo...
Koji Kadota, Jiazhen Ye, Yuji Nakai, Tohru Terada,...
Background: Microarrays are routinely used to assess mRNA transcript levels on a genome-wide scale. Large amount of microarray datasets are now available in several databases, and...
Mattia Pelizzola, Norman Pavelka, Maria Foti, Paol...
Background: Microarray pre-processing usually consists of normalization and summarization. Normalization aims to remove non-biological variations across different arrays. The norm...