[BioC] Limma-design matrix for technical replication
Jenny Drnevich
drnevich at illinois.edu
Tue Aug 12 17:28:15 CEST 2008
Hi Katerina,
There is an example of how to deal with both biological and technical
replicates in the limma vignette, section 8.2. There is even an
example for dye-swaps, which I believe fits your design exactly. To
get the limma vignette:
> limmaUsersGuide()
Good luck,
Jenny
At 10:06 AM 8/11/2008, =?iso-8859-2?Q?Kate=F8ina_Kepkov=E1?= wrote:
>Dear all,
>As a complete newbie to microarrays, I am trying to analyze experiment with
>following design: Two samples (differentiated versus undifferentiated cells)
>were compared directly on two-color oligo array, with 3 biological
>replicates (different cell sources) and 4 technical replicates (arrays) per
>biological replicate (12 arrays altogether). In every set of technical
>replicates two arrays are dye-swap. I am not sure how to handle the
>technical and biological replication when trying to fit linear model. We are
>interested just in overall comparison differentiated versus undifferentiated
>cells.
>I have arrived to following setup:
>Targets file is:
>SlideNumber FileName Cy3 Cy5
>1 1.gpr N1 D1
>2 2.gpr N1 D1
>3 3.gpr D1 N1
>4 4.gpr D1 N1
>5 5.gpr N2 D2
>6 6.gpr N2 D2
>7 7.gpr D2 N2
>8 8.gpr D2 N2
>9 9.gpr N3 D3
>10 10.gpr N3 D3
>11 11.gpr D3 N3
>12 12.gpr D3 N3
>
>Where N means undifferentiated and D differentiated cells and 1-3 are
>biological replicates.
>
>Is the following design correct one? Or is there a better way to obtain
>relevant information?
>Is this extensible for more/less biological replicates?
>
>design <- cbind(D1vsN1 = c(1,1,-1,-1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0), D2vsN2 =
>c(0,0,0,0,1,1,-1,-1,0,0,0,0), D3vsN3 = c(0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,1,-1,-1))
>fit <- lmFit(MA, design)
>cont.matrix <- makeContrasts(DvsN = (D1vsN1 + D2vsN2 + D3vsN3)/3, levels =
>design)
>fit2 <- contrasts.fit(fit, cont.matrix)
>fit2 <- eBayes(fit2)
>
>
>Sorry if I am asking something obvious and thank you in advance for your
>help.
>
>Best regards,
>Katerina
>
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