Table 1

Effect of deliberate regional bias distortions on MAS5 estimates

Region

.05

.10

.25

.50

Factor

1.4

RMA

<.001

.011

.019

.029

MAS5

.019

.031

.047

.063

R

.426

.549

.69

.74

2.0

RMA

.001

.003

.039

.35

MAS5

.034

.057

.100

.155

R

.647

.764

.864

.89

Entries for RMA and MAS5 in the table are fractions of probe set abundance estimates (i.e., gene expression estimates) changed by more than 0.5 on a log2 scale as a consequence of the bias introduced. The rows labeled R report values of the local correlation, R.

Reimers and Weinstein BMC Bioinformatics 2005 6:166   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-6-166