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From: Evaluation of the similarity of gene expression data estimated with SAGE and Affymetrix GeneChips

Figure 4

Scaling of two gene expression profiling platforms. Illustration of the steps involved in the scaling of values in each of the platforms to a common scale. The procedure takes the ratio distribution in one of the platforms and scales the other to match the same range of ratio values using a quadratic equation based on ratio 1 and the 10th and 90th percentile values of each platform. The (scaled) ratio values are then used to calculate between-platform ratio differences per transcript. In addition, it is demonstrated how the ratio differences can be used to calculate the standardized between-platform log(ratio) difference and a probability value. For further details: see the Materials and Methods section.

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