[BioC] GCRMA and background
Amy Mikhail
a.mikhail at abdn.ac.uk
Thu Feb 9 13:38:52 CET 2006
Dear list,
Was just following Richard's posts about GCRMA, and I'm curious to know
why sequences would affect background - is it that some nucleotides have
stronger binding affinities to dies than others or...?
Also is this mainly a problem for affy arrays or does it also affect
spotted ones?
Cheers,
Amy.
> -GCRMA assumes log normal distribution for background. It also assumes
> that the parameters of that log normal distribution depends on the
> probe sequence (a little more complicated than just GC content). Therefore
> it uses "similar" probes to estimate those parameters. Which probes are
> similar is determined by their sequences.
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