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'maskBAD'--a package to detect and remove Affymetrix probes with binding affinity differences.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Hybridization differences caused by target sequence differences can be a confounding factor in analyzing gene expression on microarrays, lead to false positives and reduce power to detect real expression differences. We prepared an R Bioconductor compatible package to detect, characterize and remove such probes in Affymetrix 3'IVT and exon-based arrays on the basis of correlation of signal intensities from probes within probe sets. RESULTS: Using completely mouse genomes we determined type 1 (false negatives) and type 2 (false positives) errors with high accuracy and we show that our method routinely outperforms previous methods. When detecting 76.2% of known SNP/indels in mouse expression data, we obtain at most 5.5% false positives. At the same level of false positives, best previous method detected 72.6%. We also show that probes with differing binding affinity both hinder differential expression detection and introduce artifacts in cancer-healthy tissue comparison. CONCLUSIONS: Detection and removal of such probes should be a routine step in Affymetrix data preprocessing. We prepared a user friendly R package, compatible with Bioconductor, that allows the filtering and improving of data from Affymetrix microarrays experiments.

SUBMITTER: Dannemann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3439685 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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'maskBAD'--a package to detect and remove Affymetrix probes with binding affinity differences.

Dannemann Michael M   Lachmann Michael M   Lorenc Anna A  

BMC bioinformatics 20120416


<h4>Background</h4>Hybridization differences caused by target sequence differences can be a confounding factor in analyzing gene expression on microarrays, lead to false positives and reduce power to detect real expression differences. We prepared an R Bioconductor compatible package to detect, characterize and remove such probes in Affymetrix 3'IVT and exon-based arrays on the basis of correlation of signal intensities from probes within probe sets.<h4>Results</h4>Using completely mouse genomes  ...[more]

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