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Methods for evaluating gene expression from Affymetrix microarray datasets

Ning Jiang1* email, Lindsey J Leach1* email, Xiaohua Hu3 email, Elena Potokina1 email, Tianye Jia1 email, Arnis Druka2 email, Robbie Waugh2 email, Michael J Kearsey1 email and Zewei W Luo1,3 email

School of Biosciences, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, England, UK

Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK

Institute of Biostatistics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, PR China

author email corresponding author email* Contributed equally

BMC Bioinformatics 2008, 9:284doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-284

Published: 17 June 2008

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Pearson's Product Moment Correlation Coefficients among yeast gene expression indices calculated from seven different methods.

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Statistical properties of estimated yeast gene expression indices from seven data extraction methods. (a) Intraclass correlation coefficients between biological replicates of the estimated expression indices for 5,814 genes; (b) Sensitivity for detecting differentially expressed genes; and (c) Calibration p-values across FDR levels.

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Pair-wise Pearson correlation coefficients between all pairs of 24 sets (8 barley cultivars × 3 replicates) of 22,840 gene expression indices calculated from the MAS5.0 and RMA methods with different background correction steps and for the AD and MBEI methods with different normalization steps.

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Mutual predictability of the number of yeast genes declared differentially expressed from seven data extraction methods.

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