Title
Microarray results: how accurate are they?
Abstract
DNA microarray technology is a powerful technique that was recently developed in order to analyze thousands of genes in a short time. Presently, microarrays, or chips, of the cDNA type and oligonucleotide type are available from several sources. The number of publications in this area is increasing exponentially.In this study, microarray data obtained from two different commercially available systems were critically evaluated. Our analysis revealed several inconsistencies in the data obtained from the two different microarrays. Problems encountered included inconsistent sequence fidelity of the spotted microarrays, variability of differential expression, low specificity of cDNA microarray probes, discrepancy in fold-change calculation and lack of probe specificity for different isoforms of a gene.In view of these pitfalls, data from microarray analysis need to be interpreted cautiously.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1186/1471-2105-3-22
BMC Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
dna microarray,chip,gene expression profiling,algorithms,alleles,bioinformatics,granzymes,computational biology,microarrays
Complementary DNA,Microarray,Biology,Oligonucleotide,Gene chip analysis,Bioinformatics,Genetics,Microarray databases,DNA microarray,Gene expression profiling
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
1
1471-2105
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
29
2.17
1
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ravi Kothapalli1292.17
Sean J Yoder2292.17
Shrikant Mane3332.67
Thomas P Loughran4292.17