[BioC] unwrapdups for duplicate spots on custom array

Naomi Altman naomi at stat.psu.edu
Wed Mar 8 21:40:19 CET 2006


What I would do is to normalize the data and then sort by geneid.
Once it is sorted, you can used spacing=1.

Does this make sense?  It depends on whether the correlation is 
related to distance (bad) or just to array (OK).

--Naomi

At 09:36 AM 3/8/2006, Steffen Neumann wrote:
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>
>Hi,
>
>I am currently working on the analysis of the SGED Study 073,
>which has been performed with the potato_10K_v3_sep14_2004 chip,
>http://www.tigr.org/tdb/potato/microarray_desc.shtml
>
>I found that the pattern for replicated spots is non-trivial,
>duplicates are within a block, but with the upper-left spots
>duplicated in the lower right of a block, and lower left spots
>replicated on the upper right.
>
>The spacing is 220 for spots in the rectangle (1,1) through (13,18)
>and 455 for spots in (14,1) to (26,8). A plot of the pairs
>is available at msbi.ipb-halle.de/~sneumann/lines.pdf
>
>I'd like to use calculate the duplicateCorrelation and do an lmFit.
>
>Should I
>        1) hack unwrapdups to understand this/any layout
>        2) hack/rearrange the inputfiles, possibly with side-effects
>           for the normalization (?!)
>        3) Do something completely different ?
>
>Checking the Archive I found very few references to duplicates
>which are not "columns" , "rows" or "topbottom". Did I miss something ?
>
>Yours,
>Steffen
>
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