Making Informed Choices about Microarray Data Analysis

Making Informed Choices about Microarray Data Analysis

This article describes the typical stages in the analysis of microarray data for nonspecialist researchers in systems biology and medicine. Particular attention is paid to significant data analysis issues that are commonly encountered among practitioners, some of which need wider airing. The issues addressed include experimental design, quality assessment, normalization, and summarization of mu...

Use of decision aids to support informed choices about screening.

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No technical understanding required: helping users make informed choices about access to their personal data

Many smartphone apps collect personal information used for a variety of purposes. Users, however, are often unaware of this kind of access even though they must grant the required permissions upon app installation. We have identified three reasons for this unawareness. First, relevant permissions can be missed in long lists of permissions. Second, apps that access personal information for funct...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

Making choices about the scope of family practice.

At Keystone III, a dialogue about family practice after 30 years of development in the United States, a futuristic view of the potential failure of family practice suggested that family physicians could fail because they abdicated their functional domain to other providers.In this issue of the JABFP, Rodney and Hahn focus on the functional domain of family practice by assessing the financial im...