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A detailed transcript-level probe annotation reveals alternative splicing based microarray platform differences

Joseph C Lee1 email, David Stiles1 email, Jun Lu1 email and Margaret C Cam1,2 email

Genomics Core Laboratory, National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Office of the Director, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA

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BMC Genomics 2007, 8:284doi:10.1186/1471-2164-8-284

Published: 20 August 2007

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Additional file 1:

Probe alignment failure conditions. Provides examples of probes failing to align for various causes.

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Additional file 2:

Minimum number of probes for reliable Affymetrix summarization measurements. Graph showing the correlation coefficient versus number of probes in a probe set matching to RefSeq in a cross platform comparison between Affymetrix and Agilent.

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Alignments and real-time PCR designs for 3 other "discordant" genes: CDC42, CALM1, FMO5. Alignments on the UCSC Genome browser for each platform's probe(set) against relevant AceView transcripts. Real-time PCR primers and probes are included.

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Perl and Matlab code used for sequence matching and analysis. The readme file contains descriptions for each script.

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