[BioC] GSB adjustment in GCRMA

Zhijin Wu zwu at stat.brown.edu
Fri Sep 21 17:54:40 CEST 2007


Yes I am planning to include that modification of  gcrma so 
uninformative probes will no longer be adjusted. Wolfgang Huber has 
pointed this out to me and it's underway.


Pierre Neuvial wrote:
> Dear users,
> 
> I would like to draw your attention on a recent paper by Lim et al (Bioinformatics, 2007): "Comparative analysis of microarray normalization procedures: effects on reverse engineering gene networks"
> 
> Bioinformatics 2007 23(13):i282-i288; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm201
> http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/23/13/i282
> 
> This paper raises important concerns regarding GCRMA. In particular, they suggest that GCRMA induces artificial correlations between probe sets with small expression levels. They claim these correlations are induced by the Gene Specific Binding (GSB) adjustment step of GCRMA. My first question is: does anyone have a similar experience with GCRMA ?
> 
> To our knowledge, this GSB adjustment step is not described in the original paper by Wu at al (A model-based background adjustment for oligonucleotide expression arrays, 2004, JASA). Does anyone know where it is described ?
> 
> However, as mentioned by Lim, this step is (or can be) performed in the gcrma package . It is optional when the gcrma function is used (performed iff GSB.adjust=TRUE), but in justGCRMA this adjustment is systematically performed. Lim have proposed a reimplementation of this step where "uninformative probes" are not GSB-adjusted. Could it be included is an option in gcrma ?
> 
> Any hints on these questions would be much appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pierre Neuvial.
> 
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