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Microarray data analysis (median detection pvalue)

Hi. I am currently doing Microarray data analysis on some dataset in GEO and I came up in one paper with the method "median detection p-values" for reducing the number of genes. As it says this procedure is useful for finding absent probes!. Here is the link to paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22005334

I do not know how does it work and what is the notion of it. It would be grateful if anyone can propose a reference to read more about it. After a complete search I could not find any reliable result about it.

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It's better to take raw files from GEO datasets and analyze by yourself, It takes 20-30 mins to process the files in R bioconductor

Here is how to analyze them. One very nice Tutorial is from Obi Griffith, which is here.

Unfortunately the CELL files are not available for this study, only txt raw data is available. I am familiar with bioconductor project and my question is not how to analyse microarray data with bioconductor project. I am searching for median detection method.

okay

  • grab the raw files
  • transform their value on log2 scale
  • install limma package
  • do the median centric normalization
  • you can use normalizeQuantiles , it makes upper quantile adjusted to median value
  • make a boxplot if data is normalized (medians of boxes should fall in single line)
  • then you can go for differentially expressed genes or relative enrichments

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