RNA Amplification Strategies for cDNA Microarray Experiments

RNA amplification strategies for cDNA microarray experiments.

The biological materials available for cDNA microarray studies are often limiting. Thus, protocols have been developed to amplify RNAs isolated from limited amounts of tissues or cells. RNA amplification by in vitro transcription is the most widely used among the available amplification protocols. Two means of generating a dsDNA template for the RNA polymerase are a combination of reverse trans...

cDNA Microarray Data Normalization

Optimal Factorial Designs for Cdna Microarray Experiments

We consider cDNA microarray experiments when the cell populations have a factorial structure, and investigate the problem of their optimal designing under a baseline parametrization where the objects of interest differ from those under the more common orthogonal parametrization. First, analytical results are given for the 2× 2 factorial. Since practical applications often involve a more complex...

Bioinformatic Strategies for cDNA-Microarray Data Processing

Pre-processing plays a vital role in cDNA-microarray data analysis. Without proper preprocessing it is likely that the biological conclusions will be misleading. However, there are many alternatives and in order to choose a proper pre-processing procedure it is necessary to understand the effect of different methods. This chapter discusses several pre-processing steps, including image analysis,...

Spatial Analysis of cDNA Microarray Experiments

Some normalization methods assume that the two channels of intensities are related by a constant so that Microarray experiments allow RNA level measurements for many the center of the distribution of the log of the ratio is genes in multiple samples. However, mining the biological information shifted to zero. Chen et al. (1997) proposed an iterative from the large sets of data generated by micr...