A two-stage normalization method for partially degraded mRNA microarray data

A two-stage normalization method for partially degraded mRNA microarray data

MOTIVATION The goal of the study is to obtain genetic information from exfoliated colonocytes in the fecal stream rather than directly from mucosa cells within the colon. The latter is obtained through invasive procedures. The difficulties encountered by this procedure are that certain probe information may be compromised due to partially degraded mRNA. Proper normalization is essential to obta...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

An Iterative Nonlinear Regression Method for Microarray Data Normalization

Normalization is a prerequisite for almost all follow-up steps in microarray data analysis. Accurate normalization across different experiments and phenotypes assures a common base for comparative yet quantitative studies using gene expression data. In this paper, we report a novel normalization approach, namely iterative nonlinear regression (INR) method, which exploits concurrent identificati...

Normalization of Microarray Data

DNA microarrays are a powerful technology for analysis of gene expression levels within cells. Both the cDNA and oligonucleotide technologies for microarrays are fairly young and are prone to a broad collection of errors and inaccuracies [KYML02]. In this paper we briefly discuss some sources of error and detail a variety of methods for normalizing the data with respect to some of these error s...

New Normalization Methods for CDNA Microarray Data

MOTIVATION The focus of this paper is on two new normalization methods for cDNA microarrays. After the image analysis has been performed on a microarray and before differentially expressed genes can be detected, some form of normalization must be applied to the microarrays. Normalization removes biases towards one or other of the fluorescent dyes used to label each mRNA sample allowing for prop...