[BioC] Affy RNA digestion plots

Matt Wayland mwayland at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk
Mon Mar 10 00:07:16 MET 2003


Dear All,

I am using the AffyRNAdeg feature in the Affy package to do some QC on 
Affymetrix U133A chips. I have found the RNA digestion plots useful, but have 
been disappointed that no scale is provided on the ordinate axis (mean 
intensity). To try to get round this problem I printed the means.by.number 
data (see below) and plotted these values against position in probeset using 
MS Excel.   I was surprised to find that the graphs produced in MS Excel had 
quite different profiles to those displayed in the RNA digestion plots. I had 
assumed that the RNA digestion plots were simply the mean signal intensity vs 
position in probeset, but this doesn't appear to be the case. I would be very 
grateful for some clarification on what data are used to generate the RNA 
digestion plots.

Many thanks,

Matt Wayland

> data <- ReadAffy()
> AffyRNAdeg(data)
$N
[1] 21748

$sample.names
 [1] "mr270_u133a_031002.cel"       "mr273_u133a_041002.cel"       
"mr274_u133a_041002.cel"
 [4] "mr275_u133a_031002.cel"       "mr276_u133a_031002.cel"       
"mr279_u133a_031002.cel"
 [7] "mr283_u133a_041002.cel"       "mr289_u133a_041002.cel"       
"mr290_u133a_041002.cel"
[10] "mr304_u133a_031002.cel"       "mr387_u133a_141102.cel"       
"mr388_u133a_141102.cel"
[13] "mr389_u133a_141102.cel"       "mr390_u133a_141102.cel"       
"mr391_u133a_291102.cel"
[16] "mr392_u133a_141102.cel"       "mr393_u133a_141102.cel"       
"mr394_u133a_141102.cel"
[19] "mr394rescan_u133a_141102.cel" "mr395_u133a_141102.cel"

$means.by.number
           [,1]      [,2]      [,3]      [,4]     [,5]      [,6]      [,7]      
[,8]     [,9]    [,10]
 [1,] 312.24324 319.41340 330.19704 336.34291 346.4428 352.20669 362.56459 
369.15780 385.1667 401.8260
 [2,] 314.26197 326.08707 341.49786 353.68829 364.3879 372.95726 388.60827 
400.19313 418.4312 442.1922
 [3,] 200.29662 207.87890 216.77583 225.35399 233.8228 241.10621 251.93380 
260.68953 277.5727 300.0786
 [4,] 265.58481 274.41516 285.67500 295.57530 301.0484 305.85731 316.23678 
321.94475 336.1416 353.7683
 [5,] 237.39643 249.04961 261.28215 272.73540 283.8943 294.63220 312.51102 
327.19376 353.6499 382.2028
 [6,] 331.94818 353.24510 368.40463 384.21897 399.4587 408.84340 430.72119 
446.98323 476.0305 514.7243
 [7,] 287.27735 300.31111 317.86892 331.14931 345.3910 355.08406 372.07448 
388.42676 411.0557 438.4923
 [8,] 237.09106 245.06492 259.27626 271.80332 283.0637 292.58623 307.96840 
319.45045 340.4156 365.7162
 [9,] 186.08333 195.41691 204.92691 212.64382 222.1514 229.31276 239.94625 
251.62243 265.6125 286.7258
[10,] 230.73947 239.28730 251.03565 260.01666 268.1781 272.88936 284.42916 
292.16157 306.4707 324.4112
[11,] 136.08890 143.72108 153.00208 157.94266 165.8060 171.14296 180.27605 
188.01310 204.5086 217.9039
[12,]  75.63805  75.24983  80.96209  83.92029  86.2474  88.45327  91.94578  
94.70696 100.5653 108.4616
[13,] 160.98618 158.10125 169.44953 172.39056 182.1134 188.22345 196.14362 
203.95820 218.6914 236.5902
[14,] 107.41897 109.79777 118.57822 117.79826 127.4231 131.58506 138.51518 
146.40628 160.8142 177.1633
[15,] 323.35902 328.81570 346.50632 353.27325 367.2940 377.31874 390.22261 
402.47949 424.7832 446.2216
[16,] 167.15414 168.53799 179.82503 181.18348 187.9804 190.09142 196.09917 
199.86315 210.4262 219.9084
[17,] 159.28877 166.78256 177.71656 183.49601 192.0320 197.17635 208.36922 
215.73980 228.4682 241.3190
[18,] 198.81566 203.76260 217.75332 225.04835 230.2787 233.40515 245.21989 
253.57868 267.9055 286.4034
[19,] 148.65748 152.64352 162.97836 168.89231 173.5515 177.82458 186.68972 
193.92629 206.0257 222.0941
[20,] 183.36636 185.25957 202.40772 205.14033 213.6603 222.57077 233.51481 
241.57686 260.0722 274.7090
         [,11]
 [1,] 410.9676
 [2,] 455.7815
 [3,] 317.0094
 [4,] 359.2622
 [5,] 406.5269
 [6,] 540.2176
 [7,] 458.6396
 [8,] 384.3845
 [9,] 302.4575
[10,] 331.7975
[11,] 231.5498
[12,] 117.5673
[13,] 259.4498
[14,] 201.1130
[15,] 465.6808
[16,] 229.0117
[17,] 249.2864
[18,] 303.8286
[19,] 235.6483
[20,] 291.9949

$ses
          [,1]     [,2]     [,3]     [,4]     [,5]     [,6]     [,7]     [,8]     
[,9]    [,10]
 [1,] 2.979068 3.231999 3.248349 3.250654 3.447194 3.476177 3.716082 3.757014 
4.133177 4.411707
 [2,] 3.829038 3.928718 4.102715 4.609745 4.516899 4.388837 4.751339 4.993989 
5.208078 5.501841
 [3,] 2.272700 2.409056 2.561558 2.841119 2.966126 3.353292 3.178980 3.222258 
3.619070 3.937812
 [4,] 3.234827 3.272941 3.507344 3.884075 3.810236 3.684243 3.906516 4.058972 
4.367417 5.073097
 [5,] 2.953482 3.139142 3.412897 3.442658 3.806649 3.775800 4.154000 4.423420 
5.304306 5.320836
 [6,] 4.197838 5.371407 4.796802 5.010445 5.296268 5.207516 5.577430 5.829057 
6.296543 6.822710
 [7,] 3.475498 3.652136 4.027193 4.178229 4.437116 4.453714 4.670320 4.987660 
5.412965 5.730075
 [8,] 2.683317 2.738826 2.960752 3.323439 3.407421 3.462054 3.744526 3.877138 
4.258952 4.598133
 [9,] 2.311373 2.460344 2.620369 2.677764 2.974538 2.900155 3.108412 3.968042 
3.601589 3.944426
[10,] 2.916247 2.978695 3.195304 3.311031 3.553794 3.425443 3.616121 3.768021 
4.027213 4.341722
[11,] 2.931571 3.186962 3.284025 3.333178 3.245712 2.828830 3.081501 3.126273 
4.067688 3.730686
[12,] 2.604686 1.479444 1.679853 2.606219 1.871085 1.608409 1.782902 1.764316 
1.902870 2.161340
[13,] 3.976159 2.680064 2.794041 2.717706 3.049992 3.008136 3.218159 3.420893 
3.589378 3.837071
[14,] 1.758184 1.935993 2.644799 1.696589 2.766873 2.038273 2.320435 2.294649 
2.702354 2.948170
[15,] 3.721190 3.604611 3.789913 3.840027 4.134421 4.171883 4.488898 4.568958 
4.995486 5.245748
[16,] 2.629582 2.613296 2.706862 2.698391 2.933360 2.768549 2.928804 2.940941 
3.142305 3.304945
[17,] 2.510858 2.564136 2.744861 2.733718 3.072721 2.921840 3.186635 3.295633 
3.553450 3.783224
[18,] 2.754253 2.807787 3.002772 3.702209 3.216456 3.087679 3.350453 3.465458 
3.695412 3.998094
[19,] 2.228747 2.259477 2.381427 3.192412 2.629340 2.505280 2.675800 2.804494 
3.001332 3.244188
[20,] 3.009231 2.884623 3.724703 3.099992 3.290124 3.285948 3.621516 3.657245 
3.999635 4.170622
         [,11]
 [1,] 4.777215
 [2,] 5.832783
 [3,] 4.316643
 [4,] 4.893812
 [5,] 5.784268
 [6,] 7.191177
 [7,] 6.036151
 [8,] 4.956178
 [9,] 4.278462
[10,] 4.415401
[11,] 4.093272
[12,] 2.432913
[13,] 4.489310
[14,] 3.702477
[15,] 5.800004
[16,] 3.618422
[17,] 4.011745
[18,] 4.371609
[19,] 3.572301
[20,] 4.652216

$slope
 [1] 2.101064 2.402095 2.668191 1.833786 2.826386 2.777475 2.760560 2.965249 
2.599598 2.234974 2.318620
[12] 1.786323 2.296870 2.643422 2.511186 1.719133 2.243327 2.357818 2.444547 
2.421390

$pvalue
 [1] 8.527845e-11 2.473064e-11 2.025689e-11 8.520418e-10 2.637609e-11 
1.827358e-11 1.978582e-11
 [8] 7.230978e-12 3.092073e-09 7.012118e-11 1.688104e-10 9.052897e-10 
5.886145e-09 4.604710e-10
[15] 1.504965e-11 8.610847e-10 3.944235e-10 6.846252e-11 3.396346e-11 
1.641240e-11

> deg <- AffyRNAdeg(data)
> plotAffyRNAdeg(deg)


Dr Matt Wayland
Microarray Group
MRC HGMP-Resource Centre
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
CB10 1SB

http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/Research/Microarray/index.jsp



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