BMC Bioinformatics

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Open Access Methodology article

Noise filtering and nonparametric analysis of microarray data underscores discriminating markers of oral, prostate, lung, ovarian and breast cancer

Virginie M Aris1,2,3, Michael J Cody1, Jeff Cheng1,2, James J Dermody3, Patricia Soteropoulos1,3, Michael Recce1,2* and Peter P Tolias1,3,4

Author Affiliations

1 Center for Applied Genomics, Public Health Research Institute, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

2 Center for Computational Biology, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

3 Dept of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, USA

4 Current address: Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics a Johnson & Johnson Company, Raritan, NJ 08869, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2004, 5:185 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-5-185

Published: 29 November 2004

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Assessing the noise level and trust threshold for differential expression on Affymetrix GeneChips. This document compares the noise from MAS5, RMA and dChip and presents the sensitivity analysis for the noise model parameters using the Latin square replicate data set.

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Gene markers for prostate, breast, ovarian, oral, and lung cancer. This file presents the Top Er scores for each cancer studied when compared to its normal tissue. There is a result table with gene information for each cancer on separate tabs.

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Gene markers that distinguish between prostate, breast, ovarian, oral, and lung cancer. This file presents the Er scores of genes expression levels that are consistently up or down in a given cancer compared to its normal tissue (Er>0.9) but not in any of the other four cancers (Er<0.6).

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