[BioC] GCRMA

[Richard Friedman]

Christine.

	GCRMA works better than RMA. I generally recommend that
a B-value cutoff be determined by spot-checking by PCR.

I hope this helps,
Rich

On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:51 AM, cap2018 at columbia.edu wrote:

> I have a set of microarray experiments to which I have applied both
> the rma and gcrma preprocessing.  What I have read seemed to
> indicate that the gcrma is better, however I am having issues with
> p values resulting from my relevant comparison within the study.
>
> There are 2 experimental factors, brain region and line. There are 6
> chips in each group, 24 total (6 region1:line1, 6 region2.line1,
> etc).  I applied a 2-way ANOVA resulting in p values for region,
> line and their interaction.  When I make a frequency histogram of
> the results for line (the most important comparison) for RMA, the
> results look as expected with the largest number of pvalues close
> to zero. When I make the same histogram for my GCRMA results, the
> plot looks different, with the largest number of pvalues centered
> around .2.  I wanted to apply statistical methods to figure out the
> False Discovery Rate of the tests, but I'm not sure they are
> relevant to these GCRMA results.
>
> Any comments on GCRMA or FDR test would be helpful.
>
> Thanks
> Christine
>
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