1. Performance comparison of one-color and two-color platforms within the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project.
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Patterson TA, Lobenhofer EK, Fulmer-Smentek SB, Collins PJ, Chu TM, Bao W, Fang H, Kawasaki ES, Hager J, Tikhonova IR, Walker SJ, Zhang L, Hurban P, de Longueville F, Fuscoe JC, Tong W, Shi L, and Wolfinger RD
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- Equipment Design, Equipment Failure Analysis, Gene Expression Profiling methods, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton methods, Quality Control, Reproducibility of Results, Sensitivity and Specificity, Spectrometry, Fluorescence methods, United States, Gene Expression Profiling instrumentation, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence instrumentation, Microscopy, Fluorescence, Multiphoton instrumentation, Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis instrumentation, Quality Assurance, Health Care methods, Spectrometry, Fluorescence instrumentation
- Abstract
Microarray-based expression profiling experiments typically use either a one-color or a two-color design to measure mRNA abundance. The validity of each approach has been amply demonstrated. Here we provide a simultaneous comparison of results from one- and two-color labeling designs, using two independent RNA samples from the Microarray Quality Control (MAQC) project, tested on each of three different microarray platforms. The data were evaluated in terms of reproducibility, specificity, sensitivity and accuracy to determine if the two approaches provide comparable results. For each of the three microarray platforms tested, the results show good agreement with high correlation coefficients and high concordance of differentially expressed gene lists within each platform. Cumulatively, these comparisons indicate that data quality is essentially equivalent between the one- and two-color approaches and strongly suggest that this variable need not be a primary factor in decisions regarding experimental microarray design.
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- 2006
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