Factor correction as a tool to eliminate between-session variation in replicate experiments: Application to molecular biology and retrovirology

Retrovirology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ruijter, Jan M ^a   Thygesen, Helene H ^a   Schoneveld, Onard J L M ^b,c   Das, Atze T ^a   Berkhout, Ben ^a   Lamers, Wouter H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE AMMONIA LIGASE; LUCIFERASE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; ENHANCER REGION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INTERNET; INTRON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROMOTER REGION; REPLICATION STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIROLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RETROVIRUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIRUS REPLICATION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, TAT; GENETIC VARIATION; HIV-1; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROVIRIDAE; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VIROLOGY; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 30644466345     PISSN: 17424690     EISSN: 17424690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-4690-3-2     Document Type: Article

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