Gene expression profiling – Clusters of possibilities
| Autor: | Jose Manuel Andrade Garda, Björn Sjögreen, Anders Bergkvist, Vendula Rusnakova, Mikael Kubista, Daniel Lindh, Radek Sindelka, Amin Forootan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Principal Component Analysis Embryo Nonmammalian Computer science Gene Expression Profiling Statistics as Topic Exploratory research Fertilization in Vitro Bioinformatics Data science General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Hierarchical clustering Gene expression profiling Xenopus laevis Principal component analysis Animals Cluster Analysis Female Statistical analysis Molecular Biology Algorithms |
| Zdroj: | Methods. 50:323-335 |
| ISSN: | 1046-2023 |
| Popis: | Advances in qPCR technology allow studies of increasingly large systems comprising many genes and samples. The increasing data sizes allow expression profiling both in the gene and the samples dimension while also putting higher demands on sound statistical analysis and expertise to handle and interpret its results. We distinguish between exploratory and confirmatory statistical studies. In this paper we demonstrate several techniques available for exploratory studies on a system of Xenopus laevis development from egg to tadpole. Techniques include hierarchical clustering, heatmap, principal component analysis and self-organizing maps. We stress that even though exploratory studies are excellent for generating hypotheses, results have not been proven statistically significant until an independent confirmatory study has been performed. An exploratory study may certainly be valuable in its own right, and there are often not enough resources to report both an exploratory and a confirmatory study at the same time. However, exploratory and confirmatory studies are intimately connected and we would like to raise that awareness among qPCR practitioners. We suggest that scientific reports should always have a hypothesis focus. Reports are either hypothesis generating, from an exploratory study, or hypothesis validating, from a confirmatory study, or both. In either case, we suggest the generated or validated hypotheses be specifically stated. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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