[BioC] Improvements on GCRMA function

[Richard Friedman]

Dear Javier,


On Feb 1, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Javier Pérez Florido wrote:

> Dear list,
> Some months ago, I read the following paper:
> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/13/i282
>
> It is said:"we identify a crucial step in GCRMA responsible for  
> introducing severe artifacts in the data leading to a systematic  
> overestimate of pairwise correlation. This has key implications not  
> only for reverse engineering but also for other methods, such as  
> hierarchical clustering, relying on accurate measurements of  
> pairwise expression profile correlation. We propose an alternative  
> implementation to eliminate such side effect".
>
> I've checked the papers that reference this work, but no one is  
> about the improvement of GCRMA. Does anyone know if, after this  
> paper was published, GCRMA was fixed?
>
> Thanks,
> Javier
>
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I believe that it was fixed in most recent versions.

Best wishes,
Rich
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