[BioC] Two channel data vs. one colour data for PCA, heatmaps and clustering

[Samuel Wuest]

Hi John,

I would also recommend using the limma package for your type of
analysis. After appropriate normalizations/bg-corrections, you can
extract log-intensities from an MAList object using the exprs.MA()
function. This will return a matrix object that you can use for
pca/heatmaps as you've used before. It s possible that you have to
relabel the columns and rows of the matrix accordingly (you probably
want to use the info in the $targets  and $genes slots of the MAList
object, but there might be other ways to do that).
The only drawback here is that correlations can occur between the two
channels of an array, so for testing for differential gene expression
in an unconnected design -after splitting the channels- I would refer
to Chapter 9 of the limma user guide (see: limmaUsersGuide() ).

Cheers, Sam

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On 14 November 2011 10:52, mjonczyk <mjonczyk at biol.uw.edu.pl> wrote:
> Dear John,
>
> I suppose that for the two-colour experiment you have also "A" (average
> expression) values.
> I don't know what package you have used but limma has RG.MA function
> which transforms MA data to RG (i.e. unlogged intensities).
> So you could construct MAlist object from your data, transform it to RGlist,
> (maybe take a log2) and you will have data for both channels.
>
> HTH,
> Maciej Jończyk
>
>> Dear Bioconductor.
>> In the past I have produced some PCA plots and heatmaps using one
>> colour data. On the PCA, it is useful to separate out the different
>> sample groups using the normalised expression values (say normal
>> coloured green and treatment coloured red).
>>
>> However, this sort of analyses does not seem possible with two colour
>> as you have a sinlge log2 normalised ratio (M value) as input to PCA
>> and heatmap functions.
>>
>> Does anyone have experience of doing PCA and/or heatmaps with 2 colour
>> data? Any info/advice appreciated.
>>
>> John.
>
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