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Revision as of 01:55, 14 March 2006

Overview of experimental process

File:Expt2.tiff

  • competitive hybridization to spotted oligo/cDNA transcripts
  • Interested in genes that change between treatments
differential expression versus equivalent expression

Statistical analysis process

File:Overview2.tiff


Data issues

  • In the past statistics was developed for n >>p
n observations, p variables
  • Gene expression data n<<p
    • Thousands of measured genes (p)
    • Small number of biological replicate slides (n)
  • Gene expression data can be highly correlated
    • groups of genes are regulated in the same way
  • Data not normally distributed
    • log transform highly skewed intensity data

Scratch pad

  • A flow diagram for analysis
  • Recap of cDNA microarrays (slide 3)
  • Microarray data issues (slide 4)
  • Microarray data issues (continued)
    • Large amount of data (GPR/JPEG file size)
    • Subjective
    • Need a log of what was done so someone else can quickly reroduce the results
    • → Reproducible research (someone else can understand/reproduce the results) (McGintys talk)
  • Analysis process
  • R resources/contributed guides (including downloading)
  • R tutorial of basics (objects/indexing/functions)