Table 1

Overview of the evaluated normalization methods. The compared normalization methods and their corresponding properties. a The spatial effect is constrained to print-tip based effects. b The method can be extended to support this feature.

Method name
Short name
Ratio-based
Spatial
Between-array

Global median
Median
Yes
No
No
Global loess
Loess
Yes
No
No
Print-tip loess
PT-loess
Yes
Yesa
No
Print-tip loess with Tquantile norm.
PT-loess/Tq
Yes/Yes
Yesa/No
No/Yes
OLIN
OLIN
Yes
Yes
No
VSN
VSN
No
Nob
No
Global loess with ANOVA
ANOVA
Yes/No
No/Yes
No/Yes
OPLS
OPLS
No
Yes
Yes

Bylesjö et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:207   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-207