[BioC] R-2.2 and BioConductor 1.7: changes in GC-RMA and fitPLMprocedures

[Ben Bolstad]

Hi,

It is good to hear that the results agree. The function bg.correct.gcrma
was introduced into the affyPLM package at the time of the previous BioC
release (1.6) as an aid to allow you to use the GC-RMA background with the
fitPLM, threestep, threestepPLM etc (ie you could supply
background.method="GCRMA" as an argument to any of these functions). In
this latest release the GCRMA now includes bg.adjust.gcrma which does
essentially the same correction (as you have discovered) but with a
slightly different set of arguments. These differences will be removed in
the future.

As an aside, I would be a little wary about combining the GCRMA background
with fitPLM when your only interest is quality assessment.

Ben

On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Groot, Philip de wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Just a small additional note. I just found out that both commands:
> bg.adjust.gcrma() and bg.correct.gcrma() return exactly the same
> results, thus solving my problem. I was confused by two different
> function calls that, in the end, do the same thing. I apologize for any
> inconvenience.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dr. Philip de Groot
> Wageningen University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Groot, Philip de
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:16 AM
> To: bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [BioC] R-2.2 and BioConductor 1.7: changes in GC-RMA and
> fitPLMprocedures
>
> Hello,
>
>
>
> I submit this message to the mailing list because I think that more
> people encounter the same problem. In general, when performing quality
> control calculations, performing fitPLM calculations (affyPLM package)
> is a good idea. Normalizing your data is also a good idea, so (in our
> situation) the same calculations are performed two times: fitPLM
> executes an GC-RMA background correction and the same thing is done when
> applying the GC-RMA normalization. This was for me a reason to combine
> both calculations in a separate script in BioC 1.6, in which the GC-RMA
> background correction is performed, used as input for the fitPLM
> procedure, and the further normalization steps are executed afterwards
> (this required digging in both scripts and perform the separate required
> steps in a new script).
>
>
>
> Unfortunately, in BioC 1.7 things has changed significantly in such a
> way that it is more difficult to do the above things: all GC-RMA
> calculations (except the summarization) are performed in
> "bg.adjust.gcrma" while the fitPLM GC-RMA background correction is
> performed in "bg.correct.gcrma" (without an option to pass the
> previously calculated affinities to this function and to get the
> in-between GC-RMA values back).
>
>
>
> So, my question (request) is straightforward: are people working on a
> better integration of these two scripts, so that the end result of
> fitPLM can be used for the further GC-RMA normalization procedure? This
> is not only more efficient, but also saves a considerable amount of
> computation time!
>
>
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
>
> Dr. Philip de Groot
>
> Wageningen University
>
>
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