Erratum: Microarray data analysis: From disarray to consolidation and consensus (Nature Reviews Genetics (2006) 7 (55-65) DOI: 10.1038/nrg1749);Microarray data analysis: From disarray to consolidation and consensus

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 55-65

  Allison, David B ^a,b   Cui, Xiangqin ^a,b   Page, Grier P ^a   Sabripour, Mahyar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AGING; ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; FLUORESCENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 29244448340     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1869     Document Type: Erratum

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