Preserving biological heterogeneity with a permuted surrogate variable analysis for genomics batch correction

HS Parker, JT Leek, AV Favorov, M Considine… - …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Sample source, procurement process and other technical variations introduce
batch effects into genomics data. Algorithms to remove these artifacts enhance differences …

[HTML][HTML] YuGene: a simple approach to scale gene expression data derived from different platforms for integrated analyses

KA Lê Cao, F Rohart, L Mchugh, O Korn, CA Wells - Genomics, 2014 - Elsevier
Gene expression databases contain invaluable information about a range of cell states, but
the question “Where is my gene of interest expressed?” remains one of the most difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] Dysfunctional HIV-specific CD8+ T cell proliferation is associated with increased caspase-8 activity and mediated by necroptosis

GD Gaiha, KJ McKim, M Woods, T Pertel, J Rohrbach… - Immunity, 2014 - cell.com
Summary Decreased HIV-specific CD8+ T cell proliferation is a hallmark of chronic infection,
but the mechanisms of decline are unclear. We analyzed gene expression profiles from …

Removing batch effects for prediction problems with frozen surrogate variable analysis

HS Parker, HC Bravo, JT Leek - PeerJ, 2014 - peerj.com
Batch effects are responsible for the failure of promising genomic prognostic signatures,
major ambiguities in published genomic results, and retractions of widely-publicized …

Batch effect confounding leads to strong bias in performance estimates obtained by cross-validation

C Soneson, S Gerster, M Delorenzi - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Background With the large amount of biological data that is currently publicly available,
many investigators combine multiple data sets to increase the sample size and potentially …

Natural genetic variation impacts expression levels of coding, non‐coding, and antisense transcripts in fission yeast

M Clément‐Ziza, FX Marsellach, S Codlin… - Molecular systems …, 2014 - embopress.org
Our current understanding of how natural genetic variation affects gene expression beyond
well‐annotated coding genes is still limited. The use of deep sequencing technologies for …

Selective inhibition of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma cell growth by the mitotic MPS1 kinase inhibitor NMS-P715

RB Slee, BR Grimes, R Bansal, J Gore… - Molecular cancer …, 2014 - AACR
Most solid tumors, including pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), exhibit structural
and numerical chromosome instability (CIN). Although often implicated as a driver of tumor …

Comparison of gene expression microarray data with count-based RNA measurements informs microarray interpretation

AC Richard, PA Lyons, JE Peters, D Biasci, SM Flint… - BMC genomics, 2014 - Springer
Background Although numerous investigations have compared gene expression microarray
platforms, preprocessing methods and batch correction algorithms using constructed spike …

Microarray‐based RNA profiling of breast cancer: batch effect removal improves cross‐platform consistency

MJ Larsen, M Thomassen, Q Tan… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Microarray is a powerful technique used extensively for gene expression analysis. Different
technologies are available, but lack of standardization makes it challenging to compare and …

Gene expression profiling in asthma

J Sordillo, BA Raby - Heterogeneity in Asthma, 2014 - Springer
Transcriptomics (gene expression profiling) refers to the quantitative and qualitative
characterization of the collection of ribose nucleic acid (RNA) elements expressed in a …