Background: Taxon specific hybridization probes in combination with a variety of commonly used hybridization formats nowadays are standard tools in microbial identification. A fre...
Yadhu Kumar, Ralf Westram, Sebastian Behrens, Bern...
Background: Image analysis is the first crucial step to obtain reliable results from microarray experiments. First, areas in the image belonging to single spots have to be identif...
Background: Medium- to large-scale expression profiling using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays are becoming increasingly important in genomics research. A majo...
Samuel Arvidsson, Miroslaw Kwasniewski, Diego Maur...
Background: A key stage for all microarray analyses is the extraction of feature-intensities from an image. If this step goes wrong, then subsequent preprocessing and processing s...
Mike L. Smith, Mark J. Dunning, Simon Tavaré...
The emergence of online labor markets makes it far easier to use individual human raters to evaluate materials for data collection and analysis in the social sciences. In this pap...