[BioC] Blobs

[Mark Cowley]

There's also MblobR.
reference:
Song, J. S.; Maghsoudi, K.; Li, W.; Fox, E.; Quackenbush, J. & Liu, X.  
S.
Microarray blob-defect removal improves array analysis.
Bioinformatics, 2007, 23, 966-971

cheers,
Mark
On 10/07/2008, at 12:26 AM, Steve Lianoglou wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:02 AM, Yogi Sundaravadanam wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was looking at some exon arrays and a lot of the CEL file images  
>> have
>> blobs/smears
>> I was wonder if we have to repeat the experiment or if
>> there were tools in bioconductor that could possibly correct these  
>> kind
>> of errors.
>
> Check out the harshlight package. I've been meaning to look into it  
> more myself, but I believe it tries to deal with the issues you  
> mention.
>
> R Package:
> http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.2/bioc/html/Harshlight.html
>
> Publication:
> http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/294
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -steve
>
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