vsn

Variance stabilization and calibration for microarray data

Bioconductor version: 2.10

The package implements a method for normalising microarray intensities, both between colours within array, and between arrays. The method uses a robust variant of the maximum-likelihood estimator for the stochastic model of microarray data described in the references (see vignette). The model incorporates data calibration (a.k.a. normalization), a model for the dependence of the variance on the mean intensity, and a variance stabilizing data transformation. Differences between transformed intensities are analogous to "normalized log-ratios". However, in contrast to the latter, their variance is independent of the mean, and they are usually more sensitive and specific in detecting differential transcription.

Author: Wolfgang Huber, with contributions from Anja von Heydebreck. Many comments and suggestions by users are acknowledged, among them Dennis Kostka, David Kreil, Hans-Ulrich Klein, Robert Gentleman, Deepayan Sarkar and Gordon Smyth.

Maintainer: Wolfgang Huber <huber at ebi.ac.uk>

To install this package, start R and enter:

    source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
    biocLite("vsn")

To cite this package in a publication, start R and enter:

    citation("vsn")

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