Dear community,

 

When I look at Dchip cluster the expression value range is most of the time
between -2 and 2. That's because the standard options lead to a z-score
standardization of values.

 

1)       Does anybody know whether this procedure is performed before or
after clustering?

2)       The procedure seems to return nice visual contrasts for clusters of
already determined target genes. However it distorts the ratio/relationship
between the single genes AND samples

a.       visually if applied after clustering and

b.       in addition leads to different clusters if applied before
clustering.

So is there some good reason (beyond contrasting) to use the z-score BEFORE
clustering?

 

 

Regards

 

Benjamin

 

 

 

 

 

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Benjamin Otto
Universitaetsklinikum Eppendorf Hamburg
Institut fuer Klinische Chemie
Martinistrasse 52
20246 Hamburg

 


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