Background: The preprocessing of gene expression data obtained from several platforms routinely includes the aggregation of multiple raw signal intensities to one expression value...
Background: The usefulness of log2 transformation for cDNA microarray data has led to its widespread application to Affymetrix data. For Affymetrix data, where absolute intensitie...
Kellie J. Archer, Catherine I. Dumur, Viswanathan ...
Background: Comparison of data produced on different microarray platforms often shows surprising discordance. It is not clear whether this discrepancy is caused by noisy data or b...
Scott L. Carter, Aron C. Eklund, Brigham H. Mecham...
Background: The wide use of Affymetrix microarray in broadened fields of biological research has made the probeset annotation an important issue. Standard Affymetrix probeset anno...
Hui Yu, Feng Wang, Kang Tu, Lu Xie, Yuan-Yuan Li, ...
Background: Extracting biological information from high-density Affymetrix arrays is a multi-step process that begins with the accurate annotation of microarray probes. Shortfalls...
Jun Lu, Joseph C. Lee, Marc L. Salit, Margaret C. ...
Background: Intensity values measured by Affymetrix microarrays have to be both normalized, to be able to compare different microarrays by removing non-biological variation, and s...
Roel G. W. Verhaak, Frank J. T. Staal, Peter J. M....
Background: Affymetrix GeneChips™ are an important tool in many facets of biological research. Recently, notable design changes to the chips have been made. In this study, we us...
Background: The Affymetrix GeneChip technology uses multiple probes per gene to measure its expression level. Individual probe signals can vary widely, which hampers proper interp...
Rudi Alberts, Peter Terpstra, Menno Hardonk, Leoni...
Background: Improvements in genome sequence annotation revealed discrepancies in the original probeset/gene assignment in Affymetrix microarray and the existence of differences be...
Francesco Ferrari, Stefania Bortoluzzi, Alessandro...