Abstract
Intensity values measured by Affymetrix microarrays have to be both normalized, to be able to compare different microarrays by removing non-biological variation, and summarized, generating the final probe set expression values. Various pre-processing techniques, such as dChip, GCRMA, RMA and MAS have been developed for this purpose. This study assesses the effect of applying different pre-processing methods on the results of analyses of large Affymetrix datasets. By focusing on practical applications of microarray-based research, this study provides insight into the relevance of pre-processing procedures to biology-oriented researchers. Using two publicly available datasets, i.e., gene-expression data of 285 patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML, Affymetrix HG-U133A GeneChip) and 42 samples of tumor tissue of the embryonal central nervous system (CNS, Affymetrix HuGeneFL GeneChip), we tested the effect of the four pre-processing strategies mentioned above, on (1) expression level measurements, (2) detection of differential expression, (3) cluster analysis and (4) classification of samples. In most cases, the effect of pre-processing is relatively small compared to other choices made in an analysis for the AML dataset, but h...Continue Reading
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