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Nucleic Acids Research, 2003, Vol. 31, No. 15 4425-4433
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Spurious spatial periodicity of co-expression in microarray data due to printing design

Gábor Balázsi*, Krin A. Kay, Albert-László Barabási1 and Zoltán N. Oltvai

Department of Pathology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Ward Building 6-204, 303 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA and 1 Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 312 503 1260; Fax: +1 312 503 8240; Email: g-balazsi{at}northwestern.edu

Global transcriptome data is increasingly combined with sophisticated mathematical analyses to extract information about the functional state of a cell. Yet the extent to which the results reflect experimental bias at the expense of true biological information remains largely unknown. Here we show that the spatial arrangement of probes on microarrays and the particulars of the printing procedure significantly affect the log-ratio data of mRNA expression levels measured during the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle. We present a numerical method that filters out these technology-derived contributions from the existing transcriptome data, leading to improved functional predictions. The example presented here underlines the need to routinely search and compensate for inherent experimental bias when analyzing systematically collected, internally consistent biological data sets.


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