Title
A novel approach for increasing sensitivity and correcting saturation artifacts of radioactively labeled cDNA arrays
Abstract
Motivation: The radioactivity labeled DNA array platform is a robust and accurate way for a high-throughput measurement of gene expression levels in biological samples. Despite its high degree of sensitivity and reproducibility, this platform has several sources of variation. These are related to the presence of saturation effects in the array images and impede the degree of accuracy at which gene expression levels are determined. Results: Here we describe a simple, but effective, approach for combining expression data from a series of autoradiographic exposures of variable length. This technique increases the sensitivity of this array platform by detecting low-expressed genes at longer exposures. It also improves the measurement accuracy of highly abundant genes by considering only values from the linear portion of dependency between the exposure times and gene intensities. As a result, the described approach improves the outcome of the subsequent steps of array data normalization and mining.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1093/bioinformatics/bth188
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
dna array,high throughput,gene expression
Reproducibility,CDNA Arrays,Complementary DNA,Saturation (chemistry),Computer science,Gene expression,Accuracy and precision,Bioinformatics,DNA microarray,Database normalization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
20
12
1367-4803
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Troy D. Querec172.30
Radka Stoyanova2526.23
Eric Ross3251.99
Christos Patriotis492.68