[BioC] How to obtain summarized data without normalization

Rick Frausto ricardo.frausto at sydney.edu.au
Sat Dec 25 05:51:34 CET 2010


Hi, 

>From my best understanding, Sean is generally correct...but depending on
your experimental design you may consider using the Ebarrays package, which
would allow you to make some probabilistic statements.

Cheers,
Rick


On 20/12/10 6:25 PM, "Sean Davis" <sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Li, Aiguo (NIH/NCI) [E]
> <liai at mail.nih.gov>wrote:
> 
>> Thanks, Jim.
>> 
>> One more question related to p value
>> 
>> I need to generate a fold changes based on only 2 arrays;  I like to get a
>> p values associated with fold changes.  Which package in R allow me to do
>> this?
>> 
>> 
> The best you can do is fold change with only two arrays.  Just rank your
> genes by fold change and talk to the experimentalists about getting some
> replicates.  It isn't really possible or even meaningful to talk about
> p-values with only two arrays.
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> AG
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/13/10 1:39 PM, "James W. MacDonald" <jmacdon at med.umich.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi AG,
>> 
>> On 12/10/2010 10:25 AM, Li, Aiguo (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I want to get a probeset level data set without mas5 normalization and
>> used the following script.  Could someone tell me this is right or not?
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Jim
>> 
>> 
>>> affydata<- ReadAffy()
>>> ExprNonorm<-mas5(affydata,normalize=F)
>>> 
>>> Does these script do the background correction? Or only summarize the
>> probeset level data?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> AG
>>> 
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