Systematic noise degrades gene co-expression signals but can be corrected

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Freytag, Saskia ^a,b   Gagnon Bartsch, Johann ^c   Speed, Terence P ^a,b,c   Bahlo, Melanie ^a,b  

^a Bioinformatics Division   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data cleaning; Epilepsy; Gene co expression; Human brain; Removal of unwanted variation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CLEANING; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; GENES;

BACKGROUND CORRECTION; CO-EXPRESSION; CORRELATION ESTIMATION; DATA CLEANING; EPILEPSY; HUMAN BRAIN; MICROARRAY DATA SETS; PEARSON CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

BRAIN; DNA MICROARRAY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BRAIN; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84942322190     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0745-3     Document Type: Article

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