Viral Microarray - Cultured Virus Set
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ABSTRACT: Background: The analysis of oligonucleotide microarray data in pathogen surveillance and discovery assays is a challenging task. Target template concentration, nucleic acid integrity, and host nucleic acid composition can each have a profound effect on signal distribution. Exploratory analysis of fluorescent signal distribution in clinical samples has revealed deviations from normality, suggesting that distribution-free approaches should be applied. Results: An examination of both positive predictive value and false positive rates was employed to assess the utility of three well-established nonparametric methods for the analysis of viral array hybridization data: (1) Mann-Whitney U, (2) the Spearman correlation coefficient and (3) the chi-square test. Of the three tests, it was the chi-square that proved most useful. Conclusions: The acceptance of microarray use for routine clinical diagnostics will require that the technology be accompanied by simple yet reliable analytic methods. We report that our implementation of the chi-square test yielded a combination of low false positive rates and a high degree of predictive accuracy.
ORGANISM(S): Influenza A virus (A/Texas/36/1991(H1N1)) Human adenovirus E4 Echovirus E18 Chlorocebus aethiops Vesicular stomatitis Indiana virus West Nile virus Lassa virus Josiah Human alphaherpesvirus 1 Zaire ebolavirus SARS coronavirus Tor2 Viruses
PROVIDER: GSE21318 | GEO | 2010/05/24
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA129469
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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