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A gene expression bar code for microarray data

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The ability to measure genome-wide expression holds great promise for characterizing cells and distinguishing diseased from normal tissues. Thus far, microarray technology has been useful only for measuring relative expression between two or more samples, which has handicapped its ability to classify tissue types. Here we present a method that can successfully predict tissue type based on data from a single hybridization. A preliminary web-tool is available online (http://rafalab.jhsph.edu/barcode/).

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Figure 1: Across-sample distributions of gene-expression estimates.
Figure 2: Demonstration of the lab effect and its removal by the bar-code algorithm.

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  1. Michael J Zilliox

    Present address: Present address: Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.,

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  2. Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, 21205, Maryland, USA

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