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A Model Based Background Adjustment For Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays, Zhijin Wu, Rafael A. Irizarry, Robert Gentleman, Francisco Martinez Murillo, Forrest Spencer
A Model Based Background Adjustment For Oligonucleotide Expression Arrays, Zhijin Wu, Rafael A. Irizarry, Robert Gentleman, Francisco Martinez Murillo, Forrest Spencer
Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers
High density oligonucleotide expression arrays are widely used in many areas of biomedical research. Affymetrix GeneChip arrays are the most popular. In the Affymetrix system, a fair amount of further pre-processing and data reduction occurs following the image processing step. Statistical procedures developed by academic groups have been successful at improving the default algorithms provided by the Affymetrix system. In this paper we present a solution to one of the pre-processing steps, background adjustment, based on a formal statistical framework. Our solution greatly improves the performance of the technology in various practical applications.
Affymetrix GeneChip arrays use short oligonucleotides to …